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Lifestyle Quotes
"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world."
"Beware the hobby that eats."
"I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out."
"It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things."
"She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best."
"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."
"If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive."
"He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words."
"Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!"
"My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on."
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
"Routines and daily habits aren't restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity."
"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
"A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle."
"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
"Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark."
"Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes."
"The best way to truly live a consistent life of passion is to formulate daily habits and a daily routine that engages you and makes you feel more passionate about life."
"Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!"
"I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk."
"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."
"Lots of ways to have your steak "Well done, medium rare, rare, bloody or fetch me a club"."
"There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness."
"An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect."
"I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My pants the same. I hated department stores, I hated the clerks, they acted so superior, they seemed to know the secret of life, they had a confidence I didn't possess. My shoes were always broken down and old, I disliked shoe stores too. I never purchased anything until it was completely unusable, and that included automobiles. It wasn't a matter of thrift, I just couldn't bear to be a buyer needing a seller, seller being so handsome and aloof and superior. Besides, it all took time, time when you could just be laying around and drinking."
"After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City."
"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
"Leisure is being allowed to do nothing."
"Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet."
"I don't know any writers who don't drink."
"She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home."
"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
"I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails."
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