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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
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Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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