“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.” HumansHeartLittlesDesireFightingThreeBitsMy OwnAttitudeTearsPureWeaponsMirrorsCorruptionLoyaltyLustCompromisePhrasesFollySugarGesturesDiamondCharmingPillsAmusingGleamGluttonyPlatitudesOpalMoonshineTinsel Book:The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her Source: The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her
“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.” PeopleThinkingBookDreamBeautifulJoyDesireBornGloryBravePreservesBatteredMagnanimityBeautiful Books Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.” WritingRunningBeautifulDesireHappeningsHillsImmortal Book:The Certain Hour Source: The Certain Hour
