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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
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Inspirational

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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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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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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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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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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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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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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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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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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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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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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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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