Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
economies generate investment labor looking markets trade unlock ways within
What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.
cent country five good needs
What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
affects believe educated fear greatly likely masses presence stand virtually whenever
Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something- and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a
concerned heard number
When we first heard about it, I think a number of us did have misgivings, ... We were concerned about it. We were concerned about the implications of it.
pain book learning
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 a living drumstick.
bears ridicule
Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
drinking poor alcoholism
anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
drinking men law
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent ...
men want virtue
Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
men tyranny dont-trust
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
america london too-much
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
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.