Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
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… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
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