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On the importance of letter writing...

I like to [write letters] because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
- Ernest Hemingway

One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
– Lord Byron

You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
- Ada Leverson

Somebody just [in] back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
– Ernest Hemingway

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters every so often.
– Pam Brown

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
– Katherine Mansfield

I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: I'm fine, baby. How are you?
- Michael Buble

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux

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

And none will hear the postman's knock without a quickening of the heart.
- W.H. Auden

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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

In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip & shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
- Elizabeth Hardwick

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.
- Lady Bird Johnson

Friends will write me letters. They write "over" on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron.
- Ellen DeGeneres

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

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

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
- Anatole Broyard

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
- Samuel Johnson

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