Caitlin Thomas Quotes
[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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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
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Tone of voice is more crucial than words.
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Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.
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A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.
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Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
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I wanted to be a make up artist. I did it, and the road that I took was quite good.
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You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.
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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.
