James Branch Cabell Quotes
Coth admitted that, say what you might as to the Manuel who had really lived, the squinting rascal did as a rule know what he was talking about.
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I'm not a Republican.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.
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Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
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You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.
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'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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When people get cancer now, the first thing you do is you go to some doctors to get some advice, figure out what to do. People live a long long life after a cancer diagnosis. Not that it's not scary. The people I know have done so many stupid things. And they're still alive. Just being alive at this point is kind of icing on the cake.
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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Coth admitted that, say what you might as to the Manuel who had really lived, the squinting rascal did as a rule know what he was talking about.
