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Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.
I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.
I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).
All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.
I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.
You cannot imagine how many people called, how many letters, how many emails. Every place I go, people ask me, 'Please, don't quit.'
No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
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.
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.
As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.
Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.
Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
It's an honor to stand for God, and if we want to know where we should be standing, the red letters in the Bible will never steer us wrong.
Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.
Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out.
Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.
Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.
Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.
Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!
My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
I don't think a woman [Hillary Clinton] who has revealed numerous classified information, doesn't know that the letter "C" means confidential.