James Branch Cabell Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

  James Branch Cabell

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.179, eBookIt.com

• The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

  James Branch Cabell

  Beautiful, Running, Writing

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “The Certain Hour”, p.8, The Floating Press

• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Loyalty, Attitude, Heart

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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