John Banville

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.

Irish Novelist

Ruzwana Bashir

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

British Businesswoman

Isabel Allende

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

Chilean Writer

Carolyn Kizer

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

American Poet

P. J. O'Rourke

A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

American Comedian

Judith Martin

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

American Author

Jeff Goodell

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Jane Levy

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

American Actress

Angela Watson

My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.

Sarah McLachlan

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Canadian Musician

Postcards often act as souvenirs from travels, showcasing landmarks or cultural elements.

Vacation Souvenir

Sending postcards can be a way to share experiences with friends and family in a personal way.

Friendly Gesture

Many people enjoy collecting postcards for their aesthetic or historical value.

Collectible Item

The picture on a postcard often depicts an idealized version of a location.

Picture Perfect

Postcards are popular among tourists as an affordable and easy-to-mail keepsake.

Tourist Appeal

Postcards can capture cultural aspects of a location, such as local art or festivities.

Cultural Snapshot

 and I is this chance to put the power of creating these levels in the hands of everyone so when everyone gets involved people start to communicate using these bubbles so if you think for a moment about post cards postcards or physical tokens of appreciation that say hey wish you were here with bubbles here takes on

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 world is that you you have your tower and you squeeze a few trees around the edge and you'd see cars parked it's actually only the first couple of flaws that you really experience and the rest is just for postcards the lowest value is actually the bottom part of a tower

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 and by May, she had graduated and became my one that got away. But her mix tape did not get away. I have kept this mix tape in a box with notes and postcards, not just from L.D., from my life, but for decades. It's the kind of box where,

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 and sent postcards to loved ones. I looked at the clouds, and I did what is hardest of all for me to do usually, which is nothing at all. And I started to go back to this place, and I noticed that I was doing my most important work there

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 But you either bring a letter or you write one there, and you burn it. And of course we know intuitively what is on those letters and postcards. It's a form of affection and love that is now no longer extant, yeah? And then the third

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 seen real life has a lot of people with cellphones scrambling for the right position to get the right moment of the Sun reflecting in the in the water lily pond I think you can take this stock photo postcard moment that you have

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 all over the world tend to like a particular kind of landscape, a landscape that just happens to be similar to the pleistocene savannas where we evolved. This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards,

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 is the most visited advertisement-free blog in the world. And this is my postcard collection today. You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.

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 We joked that her suicide would have made a way better postcard. We talked shop. She allowed me to be deeply depressed and have a genuine connection to another person, simultaneously. For the first time,

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 makes them part of its flesh and blood. And often it does something more. It treats these maternal contributions as information, as what I like to call biological postcards from the world outside.