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Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P

“I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.”

“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.”

People Knows Trying Looks Made Different Whole Stories Bigs Might Together Life Is Numbers Pieces Broken Letters Infinite Tiny Giants Strings Once Upon A Time Back Together Broken Up

Author:Paul Murray

“The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).”

Ifs Would Be Letters Cheerful Grim Reaper Gloria Grim Reaper

Book:One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)

Source: One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)

“Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.”

Law Impossible Letters Shade Academic Peers Flattery Morris Academic Life

Author:David Lodge

“To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'”

Writing Discipline Shapes Letters This Day Marvelous

Author:Barbara Bush

“Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.”

Letters Saving Old Friends

Author:James Caan

“As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.”

Men Christian Law Spirit Christ Religious Figures Type Holy Shadow Empty Letters Salvation Holy Spirit Testament New Testament Redeemed

Book:The Power of the Spirit

Source: The Power of the Spirit

“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

“O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.”

Knows Writing Doe Hate Know How Hair Letters I Hate Ems Pins Nobody Knows Persecuted Pin Up

Author:William Congreve

“Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.”

Mean Letters Mail Consolation Absent

Author:Voltaire

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest”

Writing Book Real Certain Fall Social Simple Adventure Communication Messages Letters Add Falling In Love Titles Bliss Telephones Conquest Hearted Imports Colossal Real Books

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.”

Men Writing Objects Letters Universal Reputation Idols

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.”

“I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.”

Writing Waiting Records Fans Letters Egotism

Author:Joe Walsh

“Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."”

Poetry Hair Praying Letters Prose Copies Verses Pins Pin Up

Author:William Congreve

“When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.”

Character Four Type Letters

Author:Michael Palmer

“There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.”

People Feels Certain Dies Letters Urges

Author:Christopher Morley

“A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.”

Men Should Wells Asks Known Century Style Letters Function Magazines Well Known Psychologist

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.”

“'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.”

Thinking Different Use Happens Speak Difficult Hours Watches Fronts Mouths Letters Mirrors Tongue Coaches Realising Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Marion Cotillard

“My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.”

Ifs Years Littles Mother Found Baby Letters Take Me Orphanage

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.”

People Ifs Needs Writing Problem Letters Complicated Lawyer Cop

Author:Dan Savage

“I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.”

Thinking Writing House Left Letters Planes Kitchen Drawers Love Letter

Author:Sophie Calle

“There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Book Guy Sound Dark Struggle Written Letters Distance Bunch Prose Grammar Hesitation

Author:Nicholson Baker

“The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.”

People World Should Done Artist Audience Fans Materials Reader Letters Connections Should Have Response Digital Digital World

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.”

Knows Want Feels Ideas Kids Know How Strange Eating Letters Accounts Dinner Phenomenon Eating Dinner Strange Phenomena

Author:Scarlett Johansson

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