“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
“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
“Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav'nt the slightest respect for him!”
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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