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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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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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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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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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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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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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 humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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