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I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded…. When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a day. – William S. Burroughs, letter to Mother and Dad, 1959

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. – Lord Byron

There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters… I could be their leader. – Charlie Brown

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

My songs are just little letters to me. – Ani Difranco

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. – Bob Garfield

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely. – Pam Brown

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! – John A. MacDonald

I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! – Catharine M. Sedgwick

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. – D.H. Lawrence

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them. – Washington Irving

But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. – Lord Chesterfield

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. – George Washington