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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....

Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916), U.S. author, critic. (First published 1953). "Anderson, Millay and Crane in Their Letters," A View of My Own (1962).

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