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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. 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? No lady is ever a gentleman. Patriotism is the religion of hell. People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him; – That is, when they remember he still exists. Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache? Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. |
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