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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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 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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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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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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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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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 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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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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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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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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