{"quotes":[{"text":"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["america","big-bang","big-bang-theory","church-and-state","creation","creationism","dinosaurs","education","evolution","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-religion","intelligent-design","letters","literacy","new-jersey","new-york-times","noah-s-ark","religion","science","scientific-literacy","teachers","teaching"],"id":533,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["education","happiness","hope","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge","letters","life","love","mother","philosophy","truth","universe","wisdom","writing"],"id":7705,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.","author":"Portia de Rossi","tags":["letters","love","lovers","writing"],"id":8083,"author_id":"Portia+de+Rossi"},{"text":"Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["conversation","letters","writing"],"id":8828,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"I don't get as much fan mail as an actor or singer would, but when I get a letter 99% of the time it's pointing out something that really had an impact. Like after 'My Own Private Rodeo' all these people wrote to me and said Dale's dad inspired them to come out. And this was when it was still illegal to be gay in Texas and a few other states. Another one that really stuck with me was this girl who survived Columbine. See, 'Wings of the Dope,' the episode where Luanne's boyfriend comes back as an angel, aired two weeks after the shooting. About a month after that, I got a letter from a girl who was there and hid somewhere in the school when it was all going on. She said the first thing she was gonna do if she survived was tell a friend of hers she was in love with him. She never did. He ended up being one of the kids responsible for it. So you can imagine how - you know, to her, it felt wrong to grieve almost, and she bottled it up. But she saw that episode and Buckley walking away at the end and something just let her finally break down and greive and miss the guy. I remember she quoted Luanne - 'I wonder if he's guardianing some other girl,' or something along that line, because she never had the guts to tell the kid. That really gets to people at Comic Con.","author":"Mike Judge","tags":["2007","columbine","coming-out","fame","fan-mail","grief","king-of-the-hill","letters","tv-guide","unrequited-love"],"id":9580,"author_id":"Mike+Judge"},{"text":"All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["fernando","letters","love","pessoa","poem","ridiculous"],"id":9750,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bits-of-wisdom","brevity-in-emotion","common","communication","connections","emotional-connections","instant-communication","letters","passion","philosophers","positive-thinking","punch","quotes","revelation","scribes","sermons-summarized","simplification","statements","summation-of-thought","technology","thinkers","to-the-point","wisdom","words","writers","writing-craft","writing"],"id":10213,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["break-up","charlotte-eriksson","drunk","growing-up","leave","leaving","letters","lost-love","poetry","prose","prose-poetry","sad","the-glass-child","tumblr-writer","youth"],"id":16420,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["friendship","immortality","letter-writing","letters","the-mind"],"id":16533,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"Had I only known my lettersWould be of such importanceI’d empty myself on paperEvery single morning’And it was for such reason,as she read his little stanza,that she decided to stamponefinalletter:‘Every single morningI’d empty myself on paperYou were my greater importanceThat’s why I wrote you letters.","author":"Mie Hansson","tags":["bittersweet","danish-poetry","irony-of-life","letters","love","mie-hansson","poetry","separation","where-pain-thrives"],"id":19190,"author_id":"Mie+Hansson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":153,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}