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

  Happiness, Mean, Self

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• Hay una fraternidad en una persona que bebe, de la que carecen fríamente los enemigos rectos y estrechos de la bebida; la diferencia entre los dos es más marcada que la nacionalidad o la creencia: es una especie totalmente opuesta. Va contra las leyes no escritas de la simpatía que se mezclen. Para mí, un hombre que no bebe es claramente indecente.

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  Drinking, Men, Law

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• Una gran cantidad de vulgaridad caliente es incomparablemente preferible a un poco de amabilidad pellizcado

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  Vulgarity Is, Heartless, Littles

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• Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Sex, Love Is, Thieves

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• My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Cutting, Hands, Cake

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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

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  Strong, Drinking, Order

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• One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

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  Return, Should, Rough

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• there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

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  Grief, Gay, Gaiety

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• So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

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  Mean, Roots, Feelings

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• Cuando el deseo está puesto en una persona en particular, nadie más lo hará.

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  Desire, Persons, Particular

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• resignación, quizá la palabra más asfixiante del idioma.

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  Language, Stifling, Resignation

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• Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

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  Men, Want, Virtue

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

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• Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

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  Eye, Insanity, Creation

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• Pero el verdadero mal de la bebida reside en la desilusión: que el placer inicial se evapora muy pronto, dejando un desmoralizador ansia de más, que ni siquiera es temporalmente placentero. Lo que conduce al deterioro de las facultades tanto del cuerpo como de la mente, además de una desconcertante falta de cooperación entre ambos.

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  Lying, True Evil, Two

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• 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.

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  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

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  Art, Fire, Sand

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• 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.

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  Pain, Book, Learning

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• Soy incapaz, mentalmente incapaz, de relacionar lo muerto, el cuerpo roto que se niega a divulgar por qué o adónde se ha ido su ocupante, con lo que estaba vivo.

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  Grief, Broken, Gone

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• Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

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  Jealousy, Necks, Lifelong

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• 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.

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  Success, Integrity, Artist

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Caring, Dawn

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

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  Creer, Pensar, Querer

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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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