Reviews for How to Have a Lifestyle

The average rating for How to Have a Lifestyle based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-28 00:00:00 Rui Araujo The best thing about the book is his observations and his fortune teller like ways of seeing future style killers such as: reality television and kindles. His observation on people and style are thought provoking, reading his reflections on Wilde and Hemingway and their tragic, or not tragic ends, was fascinating, funny - yet sad. I assumed he would read like Wilde, but he does not. His flowery expression is grounded in a universal truth, unlike Wilde who was grounded in Wilde. There are plenty of witticisms, which should be cultivate if not given naturally. They funny and truthful and reflect someone watching a world in decline. Style, perhaps, is not what it once was. But style is individual and Crisp says that style is about showing the world who you are - you must know yourself and you must practice that self before going out into the world (or on to the stage). 'You need to cultivate a life-style first for your own benefit - to give you a firm belief in your own identity." Style is: • Words • Voice • Appearance You should be working to cultivate each. Style is not fashion, but those adornments, when reflecting the self can demonstrate your style to world. Beauty is also not related to style "plainness is an excuse so often put forward by failures." He is pointedly decided that learning, "the most expensive time filler" and hobbies are "instead of life." We should seek "to reform ourselves instead of other people." 'What is needed is greater intensity of living - STYLE. • "I think you fall out of your mother's womb; you crawl across open country under fire; you grab at what you want, and if you don't get it you go without; and you flop into your grave." • "…make up your mind whether to grab want you want, fight for it, or ask for it, because otherwise you will lose." • Sterling Moss: the best way to live is "flat out with every decision mattering." Making work vs. doing work - Doing is style, the former kills it. • "Never do for a living any job in which you cannot add what you are to what you do." • "…discover or invent an everyday occupation onto which he can weave the tapestry of his life-style." Morality also kills style - creating a sameness, a conformity, yet he also alludes to causal sex as also having deprived us of a certain style to be had in romance. Order is a prison for somebody. I do not agree with his take on "You Know Who, " but I agree that it is not enough to simply look to heaven without taking action, making a decision. My faith in God is a support and a guide - I know I am responsible for actively pursuing my purpose and my style. Fun read.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-10 00:00:00 C Huhn I like to think of Quentin Crisp as the working class Oscar Wilde. This book is so rich in wonderfulness that I need to go back and read it about ten more times to search out all the brilliant witticisms.