1 "Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of
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2 prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such
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3 separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should
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4 approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no
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5 other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices
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6 that are popularly believed to indicate style--all mannerisms, tricks,
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7 adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity,
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8 orderliness, sincerity."
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10 --Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"
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12 ''And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi''
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