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Caitlin Thomas Quotes

I don’t trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can’t have one without the other Picture Quote #1

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity Picture Quote #1

Love can bear anything better than ridicule Picture Quote #1

Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language Picture Quote #1

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts Picture Quote #1

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love Picture Quote #1

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There is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief Picture Quote #1

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two Picture Quote #1

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into Picture Quote #1

Anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me Picture Quote #1

If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness Picture Quote #1

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do Picture Quote #1

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Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation Picture Quote #1

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness Picture Quote #1

Virtue in a man doesn’t make you want to grab him Picture Quote #1

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage Picture Quote #1

None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick Picture Quote #1

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me Picture Quote #1

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There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe Picture Quote #1

Money... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age Picture Quote #1

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion Picture Quote #1

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive Picture Quote #1

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them Picture Quote #1

There is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking Picture Quote #1

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I don’t trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can’t have one without the other Picture Quote #1

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I don’t trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can’t have one without the other. (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Love can bear anything better than ridicule (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) There is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Virtue in a man doesn’t make you want to grab him (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) ... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Money... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) There is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking (Caitlin Thomas Quotes) I don’t trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can’t have one without the other (Caitlin Thomas Quotes)