Caitlin Thomas Quotes - Page 2

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• But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Opposites, Advice, Soul

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• anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Drinking, Poor, Alcoholism

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• In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

  Caitlin Thomas

  America, Littles, London

  Caitlin Thomas, George Tremlett (1986). “Caitlin: a warring absence”, Harvill Secker

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• ... 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

  Men, Self, Breaths

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• Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Running, Creativity, Effort

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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• 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

  Block, Winter, Long

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• Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Bears, Ridicule

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• [On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• 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

  People, Creative, Doe

  Caitlin Thomas, George Tremlett (1986). “Caitlin: a warring absence”, Harvill Secker

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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

  Men, Tyranny, Don't Trust

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