Letter Quotes - 5
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A lone letter from a young man: that is fame.
John originally John Allyn Smith Berryman— 1968 'Dream Song No.342'.
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.
Alberto Manguel— 1996 A History of Reading.
Idi Amin is a splendid type and a good [rugby] player … but virtually bone from the neck up, and needs things explained in words of one letter.
— Document from Public Record Office quoting "a British official"; cited variously in obituaries including "Prayers but no forgiveness for Idi Amin," August 18, 2003, Anton La Guardia, Daily Telegraph.
Know thou of a certainty that every letter revealed in the Bayán is solely intended to evoke submission unto Him Whom God shall make manifest, for it is He Who hath revealed the Bayán prior to His Own manifestation.
báb— The Persian Bayán, V, 8
I watched the way it wasThe way it was when he was with usAnd I really don't mindSleeping on the floorBut I couldn't sleep after what I sawI wrote this letter to tell youThe way I feel.
bono— "Stranger in a Strange Land"
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
d. h. lawrence— Letter to Blanche Jennings, 15 April, 1908, Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1979), James T. Boulton, ed.
Turkey is not ready to continue the process that was started and to move forward without preconditions in line with the letter of the Protocols... We consider unacceptable the pointless efforts of making the dialogue between Armenia and Turkey an end in itself; from this moment on, we consider the current phase of normalization exhausted.
serzh sargsyan— Televised Address of the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on the Process of Normalization of Relations between Armenia and Turkey (April 22, 2010)
This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.
lucy stone— Letter to Antoinette Brown (c. August 1849) as quoted in Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846–93 (1987) edited by Carol Lasser and Marlene Merrill
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it’s just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word “Love” means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and “Ave Maria” like “dearest” is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world’s marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God’s taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.
graham greene— Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 2
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
art spiegelman— On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (1978; 2008) as quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008)
