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James Branch Cabell

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.


— James Branch Cabell


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People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.


— James Branch Cabell


#invite #love #love is #marry #people

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.


— James Branch Cabell


#less #memory #resisted #satisfaction #some

No lady is ever a gentleman.


— James Branch Cabell


#gentleman #lady

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.


— James Branch Cabell


#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

Patriotism is the religion of hell.


— James Branch Cabell


#patriotism #religion

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.


— James Branch Cabell


#being #man #poetry #rebellion






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"Once we understand the fundamentals of Mr. Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Cabell is not a novelist at all in the common acceptance of the term but a historian of the human soul.

chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf. Mencken disputes Cabell's claim to romanticism characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics. " Interest in Cabell declined in the 1930s a decline that has been attributed in part to his failure to move out of his fantasy niche.

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