“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.” — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
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. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
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… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share
