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“The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A-P-P-L-E in its name might survive, but it won't be the Apple of yore.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.”

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Author:Norman Rockwell

“People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking."”

People Thinking Writing Ends Turns Sex Objects Ought Letters Complaining Complaints Eighty

Author:Dave Barry

“I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.”

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Author:Antjie Krog

“There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.”

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Author:Martha Smith

“Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.”

People Letters Pleasant Unexpected Feedback Pleasant Things Unexpected Places

Author:Brian Aldiss

“SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.”

Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

“You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”

People Shows Letters Where You Live

Author:Michael Marshall Smith

“My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.”

People Men Stills Waiting Reader Letters

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.”

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Book:The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers

Source: The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers

“Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.”

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Author:Marcus Buckingham

“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”

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Book:Educating Alice

Source: Educating Alice

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”

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Author:Mark Twain