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If it's to be, it's up to me.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Inspirational

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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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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