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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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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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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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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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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 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 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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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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