149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

People often say that life is the thing but I prefer reading.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

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.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.