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“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Years Kind Long Sometimes Enough Remember Events Letters Dramatic Frustration Intensity Lacking Editing Day To Day

Book:A Woman of Independent Means

Source: A Woman of Independent Means

“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”

Heart Kind Moments Character Facts Might Interesting Written Events Letters Mere Excuse Familiar Collections Compass Hopes And Fears Undecided

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)

“What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.”

Knows Looks Doe Different War Past Events Conflict Aspect Letters Historical Notes Historian Coming Out Hindsight Impetus Historical Events Great Historical

Author:Jacqueline Winspear