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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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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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 lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
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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 vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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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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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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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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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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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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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