The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.
James Branch CabellI ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
James Branch CabellI have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.
James Branch Cabell