Subsequent Drive Letters

Famous quotes containing the words subsequent, drive and/or letters:

    Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)