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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

«I might give my life for a friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel.»
«How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!»
«Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.»
«The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star»
«When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors»
«The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Greed | Keywords: heel, lusts, scandalize
«I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.»
«The newest books are those that never grow old.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Books
«How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!»
«Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Teenage | Keywords: aspirations

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