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-" Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of  
- prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such  
- separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should  
- approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no  
- other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices  
- that are popularly believed to indicate style-- all mannerisms, tricks,  
- adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity,  
- orderliness, sincerity."  
+ Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style – all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. 
  
---[[ Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"| http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/]  
+ —'' Strunk & White'' , "The Elements of Style" 
  
-'' And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi'' 
+And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi. —''scummings '' 
  
---scummings  
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-True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,  
-As those move easiest who have learn 'd to dance.  
+Somewhat related:''' ' 
  
---Alexander Pope, " A [sample essay|http://www .mightystudents .com/] on Criticism"  
+ Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub .  
+ If you don't know anything about sex, it won't do you any good to know a lot about bathtubs . 
  
+ —[mailto:vagabond@mcgurkus.circus.com], in [news:comp.infosystems.www.providers]  
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+ Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.  
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+ —''Bruce Lee''  
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