So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share
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
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
There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share
[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
[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
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
England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share
money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share
