A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: words books writing literature
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 SmithYes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: writing
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: wealth
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: beauty
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: money
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: writing
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither;—these make the finest company in the world.
Logan Pearsall SmithThe test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall SmithThe indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall SmithTag: meaning
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