All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.
A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.
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.
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.
The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.