An aphorism is that which drags from obscurity a recognizable intuition by clothing it in words.
More Quotes from Logan Pearsall Smith:
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.Logan Pearsall Smith
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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