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The more I have thought about Figures of Earth — and its sequel The Silver Stallion — the more remarkable they have come to seem.

— Edmund Wilson James Branch Cabell 1897 - 1958 (1958)

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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

The Triple Thinkers (1938)

There is really no way of considering a book independently of one's special sensations in reading it on a particular occasion.

The Triple Thinkers (1938)

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

To the Finland Station : A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (1940)

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

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