James Branch Cabell Quotes
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Quotes to Explore
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
