Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest...
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell fo… - James Branch Cabell
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell fo…
- James Branch Cabell
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong - James Branch Cabell
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. - James Branch Cabell
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happening… - James Branch Cabell
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happening…
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. - James Branch Cabell
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three … - James Branch Cabell
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three …
There is no gift more great than love. - James Branch Cabell
There is no gift more great than love.
Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day. - James Branch Cabell
Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. - James Branch Cabell
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
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