James Branch Cabell Quote Explained: Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

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A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

Body

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

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

- James Branch Cabell

Believe

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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

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

- James Branch Cabell

Evil
Faces

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

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

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

I don’t know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket… the least understood and the least noticed

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

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

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

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