Letter Names

Famous quotes containing the words letter and/or names:

“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)