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Dedicated to the memory of
Quentin Crisp

Doing It With Style

Image: Front cover of book 'Doing It With Style'.

Published : 1981

Authors : Quentin Crisp and Donald Carroll
Everyone agrees that certain people are blessed with that enviable quality called style. But what is style? And why do some people have it while others don't.
Quentin Crisp and Donald Carroll, examine these questions and conclude that "style is not only definable but, more to the point, acquirable." In fact, they say, acquiring it is much less difficult than most people imagine, because to be a person with syle is simply "to be yourself, but on purpose"
"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take.
This is untrue.
Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
- Quentin Crisp