Quotes
Authors
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

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...”
“God sinks into dust before man.”
“Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.”

Source : "Man's Search for Himself".
“Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.”
“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
“She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.”
“The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.”
“Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.”

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