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Quotes about style
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. (Murphy Graeme)
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off. (Murphy Graeme)
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. (Murphy Graeme)
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Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. (Murphy Graeme)
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is the image of character. (Murphy Graeme)
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. (Murphy Graeme)
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. (Murphy Graeme)
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. (Murphy Graeme)
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. (Murphy Graeme)
Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand. (Murphy Graeme)
Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. (Murphy Graeme)
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich, not from real life. (Murphy Graeme)
Fashions fade, but style is eternal. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts. (Murphy Graeme)
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech. (Murphy Graeme)
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. (Murphy Graeme)
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. (Murphy Graeme)
Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn. (Murphy Graeme)
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. (Murphy Graeme)
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