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• 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...

  James Branch Cabell

  Race, Order, Romance

  "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1917.

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• American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.

  James Branch Cabell

  Book, Men, Judging

  James Branch Cabell (2003). “Preface to the Past”, p.213, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

  James Branch Cabell

  One Day, Knows

  James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Works of James Branch Cabell: The cream of the jest”

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• 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.

  James Branch Cabell

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.179, eBookIt.com

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• In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.

  James Branch Cabell

  Sports, Men, Sea

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.5, eBookIt.com

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• 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 happenings.

  James Branch Cabell

  Beautiful, Writing, Land

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “The Certain Hour”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

  James Branch Cabell

  Religious, Matter, Civility

  James Branch Cabell (2009). “The Silver Stallion”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

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• I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.

  James Branch Cabell

  Believe, Love You, Have Faith

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

  James Branch Cabell

  Doe, Belief, Indispensable

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

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• Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Might, Form

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.172, Wildside Press LLC

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• I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

  James Branch Cabell

  Literature, Feels, My Own

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

  James Branch Cabell

  Neighbor, Notion

  James Branch Cabell (2003). “These Restless Heads”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC

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• A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.

  James Branch Cabell

  Writing, Men, People

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.7, eBookIt.com

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• The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

  James Branch Cabell

  Dream, Men, Humanity

  James Branch Cabell (1917). “The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions”, Classic Publishers

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