Letter Copying Presses

Famous quotes containing the words letter, copying and/or presses:

    “Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs?
    Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.
    Shears: That’s just my point. Here, there is no civilization.
    Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.”
    —Michael Wilson (1914–1978)

    “In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can’t improve on these.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

    “I would forget it fain,
    But O, it presses to my memory
    Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners’ minds.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)