“One can never rely on the great keeping one's letters; and should those letters vanish, one is apt to be remembered only as the mysterious half of a dialogue to be reconstructed in the vaguest way from the surviving (and sometimes lesser!) half of the exchange.”
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380
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The Children http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400741.txt (1928), ch. XXV
“Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.”
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Four, The Politics Of Business, p. 92
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 30.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
“A life is just one letter away from a lie.”
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
Source: Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982), Ch. 6 : Building Community : Processes for Groups, p. 92
Context: We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”
Source: The God of the Machine (1943), p. 93