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title: "I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave … — James Branch Cabell Quote #23 | QuotesBy.net"
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> # I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

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## More from James Branch Cabell

1. > I have made at worst some neat, precise and joyous little tales which prevaricate tenderly about the universe and veil the pettiness of human nature with scree…

[Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/22/ "Permalink to quote 22")
2. > The Dream, as I now know, is not best served by making parodies of it, and it does not greatly matter after all whether a book be an epic or a directory. What …

[Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/24/ "Permalink to quote 24")
3. > Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?'

[Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/James-Branch-Cabell/21/ "Permalink to quote 21")

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