James Branch Cabell Quote Explained: I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

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Life is very marvelous… and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

Earth
Wonder

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

- James Branch Cabell

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

- James Branch Cabell

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What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

- James Branch Cabell

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Good and evil keep very exact accounts… and the face of every man is their ledger.

- James Branch Cabell

Evil
Faces

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

- James Branch Cabell

Animal

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People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

- James Branch Cabell

Believe

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Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

- James Branch Cabell

Understood

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

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

Life is very marvelous… and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

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

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

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

Good and evil keep very exact accounts… and the face of every man is their ledger.

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

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. Explain

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

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

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

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