• 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
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer 1916-2007
  

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1. communication
2. embarrassing
3. experiences
4. measure
5. desires
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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... by : Elizabeth Hardwick

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