"A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride."

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Source : Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

Shana Alexander

#Children Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Letters Quotes

“To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.”
“Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.”
“When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
“That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.”
“I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.”
“Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.”
“A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.”

Source : "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.

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