"Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors."

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Source : James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

James Branch Cabell

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“I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.”
“There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.”
“We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
“Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.”
“Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
“Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!”
“I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.”
“I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.”

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