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"Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping.
A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine."

- Samuel Butler

 

"Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please."

- Thomas Jefferson to his granddaughter

 

"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world:
that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."

- Anthony Trollope

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

- William Wordsworth

"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.  You can't reread a phone call."

- Liz Carpenter

 

"The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided
ever more reasons for its spiritual solace.  E-mails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls,
even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u."

- Anna Quindlen

 

"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought,
this in turn makes us think more deeply about life,
which helps us regain our equilibrium."

- Norbet Platt

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

"Friends will write me letters.  They run out of room on the front of the letter.
They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter.  Like I'm that much of a moron.
Like I need that there.  Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page:
'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we...'  That's the craziest thing!
I don't know why she would just end it that way."

- Ellen DeGeneres

 

"There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters.
I could be their leader.

- Charlie Brown

 

"A Letter is a Joy of Earth -
It is denied the Gods."

- Emily Dickinson, 1885

 

"Todd, I think you're underestimating the value of this desk set.  I mean, who would want
a football or a baseball . . . or a car, if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one?
I mean, if I were ever going to buy a desk set . . . twice . . . I would probably buy this one.
Both times! In fact, its shape . . . it's rather aerodynamic, isn't it?  You can feel it.
This desk set wants to fly! The world's first unmanned flying desk set.
[Todd throws it off the roof - papers fly everywhere and things crash and clatter to the ground.]
Oh my! Well, I wouldn't worry. You'll get another one next year."

- Dead Poets Society