And none will hear the postmans knockWithout a quickening of t

And none will hear the postmans knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? – W. H. Auden

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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Or dont you like to write letters. I do because its such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel youve done something. – Ernest Hemingway

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

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