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When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams. -- Charlotte Whitton
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. -- Anton Chekhov
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. -- Emile M. Cioran
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. -- Tom Hanks
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer. -- Alison Gopnik
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over. -- W. Averell Harriman
Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see. -- Douglas Alexander
Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice. -- Gil Hodges
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history! -- James Gleick
It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. -- John Blair
We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is. -- Michael Winter
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. -- Emile M. Cioran
I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead. -- Katherine Mansfield
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. -- E. M. Forster
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union. -- Edward Albee
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? -- Jeanette Winterson

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