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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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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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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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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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