James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabellwas an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 April 1879
CountryUnited States of America
No lady is ever a gentleman.
Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .
People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.
Trapped dreams must die.
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.