John O'Connell

For the Love of Letters

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  • هانيhas quoted9 years ago
    ‘The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self.’
  • Minggu Tambahas quoted9 years ago
    When someone talks and you go ‘Hmmm, mmmm’, you’re being phatic – displaying a sort of primal animal sympathy; saying, in effect, ‘Keep going, I’m still here’, even though mentally you may be a hundred miles away.
  • Evgenyhas quoted8 years ago
    The Joy of Nothing
  • Evgenyhas quoted8 years ago
    wouldn’t it be brilliant if we all wrote really rich, detailed letters to each other, which we kept as physical artefacts to pass on to future generations?
  • Evgenyhas quoted8 years ago
    The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self.’
  • mflynn19has quoted9 years ago
    Cost: £14.50 for 50 sheets of 10” x 8”. The starburst in my chest felt like love.
  • mflynn19has quoted9 years ago
    What are you doing? Send a sodding email. I haven’t got all night.
  • b8059330803has quoted9 years ago
    The pen is jealous of company. It expects, as I may say, to engross the writer’s whole self
  • Minggu Tambahas quoted9 years ago
    word ‘phatic’? It’s the word linguistics experts use to describe speech which establishes a mood of
  • Minggu Tambahas quoted9 years ago
    Stop worrying. Just get on with it.
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