Caitlin Thomas Quotes

 "Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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

 "Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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

 "Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness" ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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

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

 "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

 "In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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

 "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

 "Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "Love can bear anything better than ridicule." ~ Caitlin Thomas

 "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

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

 "There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe." ~ Caitlin Thomas