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James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (/ˈkæbəl/; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."

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The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Come, Drink, Way, Wine

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

Break, Person, Piquantly, Quality, Remember, Save

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

Battle, Fight, Fighting, Garden, Gateway

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Mirrors, Bazaars, Literature, Purchase, Bazaar

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

Ask, Feels, Lack, Literature, My Own, Precisely

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Dinners, Dream, Dreams, People, Take, World

What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

Chatters, Doe, Maimed, Men, Nearly, Yardsticks

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

Inevitable, Invite, Love Is, Marriage, Marry, People

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

Heart, People, May, Notoriety, Pessimists

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

History, Memories, Memory, Satisfaction, Temptation

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

Neighbor, Notion, Against, Thou, Thy

Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism. . . . It is the Fashion to be a wit. . . . one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.

Fashion, Men, Criticism, Morals, Turn

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Animal, Men, Doe, Man, Used, Words

There is no gift more great than love.

Gift, Life, Love, Love Life

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

Approach, Art, Arts, Generous, Life, Simple

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Effect, Humiliating, Logic, Men, Sole

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Appreciation, Cultivates, Irony, Time

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.

Heaven, Secret, World, Honest, Leisurely, Gallant

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

Life, Taken, Mind, Nearly, Abeginning

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

Men, Escaping, Ink, Employment, Grown

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