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The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

The lover of letters loves power too.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.

The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the speech, he is convinced that a full plan, letter and verse of what the administration wants, will be released.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

They [Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler] never entrusted their letters to the mail. There was always a courier, someone to hand deliver their letters.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact.

This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.