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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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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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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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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 denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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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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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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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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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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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 reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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