#letters

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. ↗

— Vanna White

#i do #intellectual #job #know #letters

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#correspondence #letters #society #solitude #perception

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? ↗

— Lynda Barry

#awfulness #bother #gotten #hate #i

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#ago #bought #his #i #letters

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. ↗

— David Fincher

#i #kind #letters #make #movies

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#asked #bent #day #doubt #each

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ↗

— George Foreman

#called #houston #i #kid #last

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#after #american #american history #anthrax #anything

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#anthrax #believed #charts #had #i