Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
success integrity artist
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.
jealousy necks lifelong
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
vulgarity-is heartless littles
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
mean roots feelings
England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...
men self native
... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.
grief broken gone
I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.
cutting hands cake
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.
desire particular persons
when the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do ...
happiness mean self
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.
beautiful caring degenerates
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.
art fire sand
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
grief gay gaiety
there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.
lying true-evil two
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.
sex love-is thieves
Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.