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And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.
'If I loved you I would have written differently. — Alice Munro

She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written. — Jeanne DuPrau

Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden

The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up. He has no discipline. — Barry Goldwater

will try to find the original intent of the biblical rule or teaching and follow that to the letter. — A. J. Jacobs

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong

The hearts letter is read in the eyes. — George Herbert

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular) — Dorothy L. Sayers

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

But if the choice I have to make comes down to you or me, I choose you.
I always have.
All my love,
Patch — Becca Fitzpatrick

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music — Abdelkebir Khatibi

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing. — Brendan Behan

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. — D.H. Lawrence

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least ... — Jane Austen

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition. — Candace Pert

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant. — Edmund Landau

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

How should we live? someone asked me in a letter.
I had meant to ask him
the same question.

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The ayatollah in Iran says he believes that he got the letter, but he thinks he accidentally threw it out with his Crate & Barrel catalog. — David Letterman

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. — John Irving

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? — Prince Philip

Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG. — Sam Kean

The real trouble with the Jews at the time of our Lord was that they stopped at the letter and never arrived at the spirit. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X. — Norah Jones

Building an empire ... one letter in front of the other. — Coco J. Ginger

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. — Karen Joy Fowler

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. — Piet Zwart

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. — William Gurnall

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page. — Howard Schwartz

Think of this as the most screwed-up love letter ever. — Nick Lake

The only convincing document he could write was a love letter. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.. — Drew Carey

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united, skin and bone trained to get along. — Aishabella Sheikh

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back — Rodney Dangerfield

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. — Mahatma Gandhi

One single letter cures the blank page. — Stephanie Ayers

A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you. — Sara Quin

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel. — Selena Gomez

Could one write a strongly worded letter to the deceased requiring their full cooperation? — Alyxandra Harvey

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way. — Aidan Gillen

Sir U fell down from a speeding train,
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O. — Edward Gorey

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

With your name on my mouth
and a kiss that never
broke away from yours. — Pablo Neruda

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams — David McCullough

It's so far up your street it's got its tongue through your letter-box.

Mum could never quite get the hang of conspiracies. — Adam Mars-Jones

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy. — Herman Melville

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself. — W. H. Auden

By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone. — Fennel Hudson

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. — John Hodgman

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words. — W.C. Fields

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. — Mark Twain

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure. — Darin Strauss

There are only two four letter words that are offense to men. The words don't and stop. Well, unless they are used together. — Christine Zolendz

As a matter of fact, there was a rule. If he wanted the Save the Crotch letter, then there was going to be an official vote. — Eileen Cook

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner. — Dorothy Wordsworth

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m. — Howard Whitley Eves

She sighed and set the letter aside. Hoping for — Julie Klassen

It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter. — Christina Engela

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company. — David Kirkpatrick

For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram. — Cormac McCarthy

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. — Morton Blackwell

The best recommendation letter is our lives. Everybody can read our actions and our deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love. — Honore De Balzac

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet. — Charles Dickens

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be. — Diana Peterfreund

Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead, — William, Executive Editor Messenger

Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want. — Alex Himelfarb

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets - except on days that begin with the letter S. — Michael Pollan

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. — Ed Markey

What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. — F.F. Bruce

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that. — Thom Yorke

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter ... — Mark Twain

I have often thought of the postman's bringing me a letter as one of the pleasures I shall miss in heaven. — Elizabeth Gaskell

{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. — Elizabeth George Speare

How do you write a letter on the spur of the moment? And then post it? On the spur of the moment? — Edward Davies

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired — F Scott Fitzgerald

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing. — Walter Raleigh

Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that. — Alan Dapre

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. — Billy Joel

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly. — Scribendi

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind. — Margaret Deland

Regardless of all the black-letter days you might have to endure, there's always a red one waiting for you. — Jay McLean

perhaps like me she's vainly hoping
and some news awaits,
but the moist earth already holds him
in her strong embrace... — Nikola Vaptsarov

A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter. — Anthony De Mello

CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER — Anthony Trollope

I will use a flower petal for paper,
And write you the sweetest letter,
You are the sultan of my heart,
Sultan of my heart. — Khaled Hosseini

When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace. — Anton Chekhov

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off. — Richelle Mead

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — George Gordon Byron

If a man doesn't give his beloved the letter he writes, his love is true. — Jandy Nelson