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"Most style is not honest enough."
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"He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."
"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"
"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."
"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."
"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."
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"Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails."
"The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word."
"A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all."
"Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears."
"The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it."
"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."
"And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them."
"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization."
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