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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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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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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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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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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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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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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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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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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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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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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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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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