Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Courage, Bravery, Tree

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sweet, Taken, Years

• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Blood, Hygiene, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

• 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.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Mind, Vacancy

• The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Generations, Literature, Want

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Beautiful, People, House

• 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

  Mirrors, Self, People

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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