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“I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!”

World Writing Children Book Speak Parent Wonder Hundred Letters Get Over Children And Parents

Author:Enid Blyton

“A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.”

Years Today Given Hundred Years Ago Letters Rate Plus Adultery Scarlet

Book:Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

“There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.”

Years Has Beens Easy Five Hundred Years Ago Letters Twenties Five Years Shakes Captured Twenty Five Octopus

Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.”

Writing Doe Numbers Ten Hundred Letters Poison Pens Good Writers Jackasses

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”

Years Has Beens Wisdom Hands Loss Cities Five Hundred Letters Twenties Infinite Wit Temples Verses Castles Palaces Monument Miscellaneous Twenty Five Syllables

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.”

“A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."”

Men Said Wanted Next Wife Mines Hundred Letters Ads Next Day Funny Wedding Toast

Author:Brad Pitt

“The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.”

Firsts Two Three Hundred Letters Asking Unions Response Newspapers Massachusetts

Author:Tom Wolfe

“I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.”

Dream Running Night Turns Loses Kissing Hundred Letters Let Me Pursuit Desperate Someday Carrie Every Night

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.”

Source: The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour