Affording Quotes (page 13)

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• animal
• money
• happy

And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords. Doug Coupland

• reading
• solitude
• wellness

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom

• smile
• snow
• lost

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever. Frank McCourt

• great
• dream
• anxiety

Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am separated by a thousand obstacles, I dream of falling back on Laetitia: if I could manage to confine myself to the lively pleasures the other affords me, without contaminating them, mortifying them by the anxiety which serves as their hinge? If I could take an anthological view of the amorous relation? If I were to understand, initially, that a great preoccupation does not include... Roland Barthes

• thoughts
• negativity
• luxury

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought Peter McWilliams

• may
• life
• inspirational

It’s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties,” Walter said. “People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don’t have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can’t afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to. Jonathan Franzen

• dead
• best
• good

If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead. Dean Koontz

• progress
• poor people
• rich

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future. Garrison Keillor

• best
• wine
• experience

Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences. Julia Child

• film
• you me
• eyes

Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple the population. Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me? Ray Bradbury

• time
• no time
• afford

These times of woe afford no time to woo. William Shakespeare

• stupid
• country
• rich

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid. Barack Obama

• wisdom
• time
• power

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel

• kids
• affords
• most

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed. Kurt Vonnegut

• people
• plum
• outfit

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?"Helen Plum Janet Evanovich