#letter

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

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

#does #down #keeping #lay #letters

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#best #betraying #letters #love #love letters

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#letters #beauty

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation. ↗

— Richard Jewell

#back #cannot #give #give me #good

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#letter #understand #experience

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#am #because #day #doing #every

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. ↗

— George Catlin

#beautifully #best #continent #equipped #finest

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#gotten #i #letters #prison #yeah