"Style is the thing that is always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style. Look how much goes to addressing an envelope - for, after all, it's a matter of set-out. And a diary, after all, is written to please oneself - therefore it's bound to be enormously written up. The obligation to write it is all in one's own eye, and look how one is when it's almost always written - upstairs, late, overwrought, alone..."
Elizabeth Bowen, Death of the Heart
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