“But what if scrambling to pay the bills takes every minute of your day, every ounce of your creativity? What if you can't afford an au pair? What if you can't even afford an ordinary babysitter?”
“What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?"Helen Plum”
“What's the point of holding on if I can't save the ones that I can't afford to lose?”
“The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!”
“What if the Cure for Cancer was trapped inside the mind of someone who can't afford an education”
“This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit-no matter how often he's reminded of it-that every day of his life takes him farther down a blind alley.”