War Time Letters

Famous quotes containing the words war, time and/or letters:

    “The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
    The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
    The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy
    soul.
    The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXI (l. CXXI, 5–8)

    “Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....”
    —Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)