Caitlin Thomas Quotes - Page 2

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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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• ... 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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• 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.

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  Block, Winter, Long

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• Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Bears, Ridicule

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• I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

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  Men, Tyranny, Don't Trust

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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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• [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

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  Aunt, Tears, Journalism

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• [On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

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  Body, Journalism, Turds

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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.

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  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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