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Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal se

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. – Author Unknown

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The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. – Henry Tilney

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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – Sigmund Freud

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

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