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Quote by Matthew Arnold
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Ha

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Patience
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

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