You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. Irwin Shaw
We are in presence of the contradiction of a style of living which cultivates sincerity and is at the same time a fraud. There is truth only in an existence which feels its acts as irrevocably necessary. José Ortega y Gasset
If one cannot overlook a hurt, many hurts will grow from it. It is a fatal style of living. Gottfried von Strassburg