“The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.”
Source: Beyond Life
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Famous James Branch Cabell Quotes
Source: The Cream of the Jest
Source: Beyond Life
“Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.”
Source: Jurgen
Source: Beyond Life
“People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.”
Source: The Cream of the Jest
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
Source: The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
Source: Between Dawn and Sunrise
“In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.”
Source: The Silver Stallion
Source: The Certain Hour
Source: The Silver Stallion
Source: The Silver Stallion