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I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them. -- Dan Jenkins
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. -- Dorothy Parker
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one. -- George Bernard Shaw
How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' -- Henny Youngman
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. -- George Ade
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. -- Howard K. Smith
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson. -- Robert Dallek
I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves. -- Bethany Joy Lenz
Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram. -- Saul Williams
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is. -- Robert Rauschenberg
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. -- Alexander Graham Bell
The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things. -- Don Henley
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am, Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. -- Phife Dawg
He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet. -- Suzanne Brockmann
The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy. -- David Ogilvy
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. -- Mark Twain
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Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land. -- Phil Ochs
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows." -- William Safire
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher. -- Oscar Wilde
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday. -- Albert Camus
I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman. -- Karen Abbott
So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?' -- Rajneesh
When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it. -- Robert Pinget
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence. -- Kristina McMorris

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