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James Branch Cabell

Born: April 14, 1879

Died: May 5, 1958

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist, author

Biography: James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his works were most popular.

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James Branch Cabell

“And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Ballad Of The Double-Soul - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, — Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him; — That is, when they remember he still exists. Who. you ask, is this fellow? — What matter names? He is only a scribbler who is content.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“It spurred me to such action as I took, — but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, — and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“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.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Hey, my masters, lords and brothers, ye that till the fields of rhyme, Are ye deaf ye will not hearken to the clamor of your time?”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916)

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James Branch Cabell

“Before 1914 had well begun to make the world safe for hypocrisy, these stories had blended into one continuous and fairly long Comedy of Evasion, called then In the Flesh, but a little later rechristened The Cream of The Jest...”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Author's Note (1929 edition) - The Cream of the Jest (1917)

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James Branch Cabell

“Kennaston no longer thought of himself as a man of flesh-and-blood moving about a world of his compeers. Or, at least, that especial aspect of his existence was to him no longer a phase of any particular importance.”

- James Branch Cabell

Source/Notes: Richard Fentnor Harroby in Ch. 1 : Pallation of the Gambit - The Cream of the Jest (1917)

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