I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
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
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. - James Branch Cabell
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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…
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 …
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.
There is no gift more great than love. - James Branch Cabell
There is no gift more great than love.
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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