James Branch Cabell quotes
James Branch Cabell was an American author known for his fantasy fiction and satirical works. His most famous book, "Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice," became a classic and sparked controversy for its themes. He greatly influenced the development of modern fantasy literature. Here are 157 of his quotes:
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest...
James Branch Cabell
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell
Occupation: American NovelistBorn: April 14, 1879
Died: May 5, 1958
Quotes count: 157
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