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description: "Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less me… — a quote by James Branch Cabell."
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> # Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

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## More from James Branch Cabell

1. > 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 peopl…

[Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/16/ "Permalink to quote 16")
2. > At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

[Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/18/ "Permalink to quote 18")
3. > Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

[Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/15/ "Permalink to quote 15")

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