James Branch Cabell Quotes

• Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.

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• Drunkenness is a joy reserved for the Gods: so do men partake of it impiously, and so are they very properly punished for their audacity.

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• I shall marry in haste and repeat at leisure.

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• A man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his own body.

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

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• [we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet. [we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

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• Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic.

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• Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.

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• 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.

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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.

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• No lady is ever a gentleman.

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• I am willing to taste any drink once.

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• Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn’t a moustache?

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• 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.

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• Patriotism is the religion of hell.

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

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James Branch Cabell (16)

Birth:	14th April, 1879
Death:	5th May, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

James Branch Cabell was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. He studied at College of William & Mary. He wrote several novels include: The Cream of the Jest, Beyond Life, Jurgen, Figures of Earth, and The High Place.

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