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Letters Quotes - Page 12

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

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.23, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.

Mari Sandoz (1992). “Letters of Mari Sandoz”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

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

Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.239, The Floating Press

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.11, Springer

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

"Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”