In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.
Most of my mail comes from young people.
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
I get a lot of letters from people.
I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.
Old age is a shipwreck.
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.
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