James Cabell Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.	Optimist
2	Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.	Evil
3	The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.	Optimism
4	Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour.	Criticism
5	For this is the song of the double-soul, distortedly two in one,—Of the wearied eyes that still behold the fruit ere the seed be sown,And derive affright for the nearing night from the light of the noontide sun.For one that with hope in the morning se	Miscellaneous
6	Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him;— That is, when they remember he still exists.	Existence
7	WHO, you ask, IS THIS FELLOW?— What matter names? He is only a scribbler who is content.	Writing
8	The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills— and as immortal.	Writing
9	A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all	Literary Forms
10	At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?	Writing

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