“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were texts into which others were free to enter, or not. Letters, on the other hand, did not exist without the other person, and their very mission, their significance, was the epiphany of the recipient.”
― Life Form
― Life Form
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“If kisses fast could flee
By letter, then with your sweet lips
My letters read should be”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
By letter, then with your sweet lips
My letters read should be”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
“The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...”
― Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
― Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
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