Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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Logan Pearsall Smith

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 18, 1865

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

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