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Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic, renowned for his witty aphorisms and refined prose style. His works often explored the nuances of language, taste, and literature. He is remembered for his keen observations on life and his influential contributions to English literary criticism. Here are 64 of his quotes:
![May it [the opposition to fine writing] be accounted for by the fact that the spirit of Puritanism, having been banished from the province of moral conduct, has found a refuge among the arts? (Logan Pearsall Smith)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/41/logan-pearsall-smith-conduct-761841.webp)
The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best. The complete explanation of any fact is the very last step in human thought; and it is reached, as I have said, if indeed it is ever reached, by the preliminary processes of recognition, designation, and definition. It is with these preliminary processes that our aesthetic criticism is still occupied.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are readers-and I am one of them-whose reading is rather like a series of intoxications. We fall in love with a book; it is our book, we feel, for life; we shall not need another. We cram-throat our friends with it in the cruellest fashion; make it a Gospel, which we preach in a spirit of propaganda and indignation, putting a woe on the world for a neglect of which last week we were equally guilty.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Occupation: British Writer
Born: October 18, 1865
Died: March 2, 1946
Quotes count: 64
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