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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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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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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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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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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It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
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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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On the windowpanes came rattling fistfuls of shot, and the snow whirled and sifted beneath ill-fitting doors, slid in the cracks of windowsills and searched in a frenzy for any refuge against the fury of the wind.
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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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I'm not the kind of person who sits off by myself and ignores everyone. I like to be happy!
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I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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In spite of everything, I shall rise again
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We have two photos that we're selling, we have a vintage 1956 and we have a current one, and the vintage ones outsell the current ones ten to one!
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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.
