#respond

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#letter-art #letter-writing #letters #art

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

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#freedom #history #learn #lose #politics

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#corresponding #disadvantage #every

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#called #correspondence #could #long #long time

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#enough #happens #how #i #i think

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters. ↗

— Halle Berry

#i #know #respond #tortured #well

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#either #important #important thing #irrelevant #movie

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#down #during #everything #finish #go

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#boundary #britain #close #communicated #congress