Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge … - Logan Pearsall Smith

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My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice today, to believe that they can truly design the life of their dreams. . . today. I mean seriously. . . why wait?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

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The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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