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"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"

"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."

"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface."

"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."

"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."

"I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style."
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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
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