Caitlin Thomas Quotes
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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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there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.
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I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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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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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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But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.
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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.
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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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[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.