Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
bitter decency history lacking limited man outcome possessed unlikely
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
music people
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
miner
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
allowed home
I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
instinct union
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
bearer love reverence tool
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
illness man perfectly refined
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
begin fate
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
harmful held truths
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
cruelty english-novelist nature
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
english-novelist
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
man
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
craves hath poor
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
paradise
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!