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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
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Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Inspirational

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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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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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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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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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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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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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