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35dee46
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You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...
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fudge
minister
style
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J.K. Rowling |
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0b4a52c
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"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Not many have style Not many can keep style I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance. When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style. Or sometimes people give you style Joan of Arc had style John the Baptist Jesus Socrates Caesar Garcia Lorca. I have met men in jail with style. I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail. Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
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life
style
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Charles Bukowski |
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688f4e8
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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
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writing
dress-up
embarrassing
vocabulary
style
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Stephen King |
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10cf827
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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writing
walter-pater
prose
style
soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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b841d30
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To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice.
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words
writer
writing
curiousity
disvoery
style
ego
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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3c980fa
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Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
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earth
live
nature
way
force
method
mold
remake
shatter
style
humankind
break
human-beings
humans
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Robin Hobb |
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"You are one of the few successful persons I know." "Me? Why?" "You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well." "But I don't really do much of anything." "And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success." "By not giving a damn? But I do, you know." "Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice--"
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success
fred-cassidy
style
will
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Roger Zelazny |
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f734a4c
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I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.
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identity
style
society
fashion
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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"What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted. "Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable..." "What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh. "Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity." "A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously."
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writing
style
talent
writers
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P.D. James |
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8b21542
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Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
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distinctiveness
openness
style
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Harold Bloom |
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82264f7
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What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.
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imagination
style
value
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Elizabeth Lowell |
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2a3f933
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Her hair was totally Indian Woolworth perfume clerk. You know - sweet but dumb - she'll marry her way out of the trailer park some day soon. But the dress was early '60s Aeroflot stewardess - you know - that really sad blue the Russians used before they all started wanting to buy Sonys and having Guy Laroche design their Politburo caps. And such make-up! Perfect '70s Mary Quant, with these little PVC floral applique earrings that looked like antiskid bathtub stickers from a gay Hollywood tub circa 1956. She really caught the sadness - she was the hippest person there. Totally.' TRACEY, 27
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generation-x
soviet
hollywood
style
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Douglas Coupland |
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0e7dc46
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It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
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sartorial
style-guides
style
dress
fashion
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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2cc576b
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Le grand monde a son argot. Mais cet argot s'appelle le style.
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société
style
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Honoré de Balzac |
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68c6f92
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Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
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rhythm
style
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Victor Hugo |
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1a94897
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Seinfeld was typically American in that show. He was a pretty funny guy, but he had no sense of style. Tacky like a Texan tux. Tasteless dressing and tasteful jokes. That's Seinfeld for me. I would have preferred it the other way around.
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american-style
seinfeld
jokes
pop-culture
style
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Hallgrímur Helgason |
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4a07bd7
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Sometime look at a novice workman or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and you'll see the difference. The craftsman isn't ever following a single line of instruction. He's making decisions as he goes along. For that reason he'll be absorbed and attentive to what he's doing even though he doesn't deliberately contrive this. His motions and the machine are in a kind of harmony. He isn't following any set of written instructions because the nature of the material at hand determines his thoughts and motions, which simultaneously change the nature of the material at hand. The material and his thoughts are changing together in a progression of changes until his mind's at rest at the same time the material's right.
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philosophy
quality-of-work
workman
professional
flow
style
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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05b336b
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He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.
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writing
latin-american-authors
writing-quotes
style
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Ricardo Piglia |
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4f03929
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Miss Rose has decided that Eliza would have learning, dowry, and fame as a beauty even if she was not one, because it was her view that beauty is a question of style. Any woman who conducts herself with the queenly assurance of a belle, she maintained, will convince everyone that she is beautiful.
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style
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Isabel Allende |