resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. Caitlin Thomas More Quotes by Caitlin Thomas More Quotes From Caitlin Thomas A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness Caitlin Thomas heartless vulgarity-is littles Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love. Caitlin Thomas lifelong necks jealousy ... 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 breaths self men There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe. Caitlin Thomas want believe thinking 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 effort creativity running There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent. Caitlin Thomas law drinking men 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 soul opposites advice I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. Caitlin Thomas dont-trust tyranny men [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 nails skins hurt [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. Caitlin Thomas aunt journalism tears Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation. Caitlin Thomas creation eye insanity 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 eye hands reality Love can bear anything better than ridicule. Caitlin Thomas ridicule bears 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 creative doe people [On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body. Caitlin Thomas turds journalism body
