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title: "The Dream, as I now know, is not best served by making parodies of it… — James Branch Cabell Quote #24 | QuotesBy.net"
description: "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 direct… — a quote by James Branch Cabell."
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> # 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 really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

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