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title: "3 Means Style Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Means Style quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Means Style sayings and thoughts."
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> [If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-mccarthy/if-one-means-by-style-the-voice-the-irreducible-and-always/)

[Mary McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-mccarthy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/mary-mccarthy-2691_alive_if-one-means-by-style-the-voice-the-irre_521046.png)

> [Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/style-means-no-shield-at-all-style-means-no-front-at-all-style-means/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/charles-bukowski-73_billions_style-means-no-shield-at-all-style-means_588362.jpg)

> [Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randall-jarrell/underneath-all-his-writing-there-is-the-settled-determination-to-use/)

[Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randall-jarrell/)

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