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Quotes from The Way of Ecben — James Branch Cabell

1879–1958 United States

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The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

The Way of Ecben (1929)

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

The Way of Ecben (1929)

My immortality has sharp restrictions.

The Way of Ecben (1929)

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

The Way of Ecben (1929)

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.

The Way of Ecben (1929)

This merely is permitted me: that I may touch the hand of Etarre in the moment I lay that hand in the hand of her last lover. I give, who may not ever take... So do I purchase an eternally unfed desire against which time — as yet — remains powerless.

The Way of Ecben (1929)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Branch Cabell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.