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When we talk politely of new books with a new acquaintance, what chasms, abysmally, yawn between us!
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The tone of people with low aims is always a high one: the talk of those who live purely for the Good is appalling.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
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When people come and talk to you of their aspirations, before they leave you'd better count your spoons.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens
Logan Pearsall Smith
Born:
October 18, 1865
Died:
March 2, 1946
(aged 80)
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