"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

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

James Branch Cabell

#Memories Quotes #History Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.”
“All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.”
“There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.”
“It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.”

Source : Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult
“[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.”
“Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.”
“I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.”
“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”

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