--- title: "I had not been two weeks in the United States before someone said to … — James Branch Cabell Quote #58 | QuotesBy.net" description: "I had not been two weeks in the United States before someone said to me: 'Well, at any rate, there is Cabell.' That was a new name to me. I was given… — a quote by James Branch Cabell." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- > # I had not been two weeks in the United States before someone said to me: 'Well, at any rate, there is Cabell.' That was a new name to me. I was given Beyond Life to read. My excitement during the discovery of that perverse and eloquent testament was one of the happiest moments of my American stay. I spent then a wild and eccentric search after his earlier masterpieces. Inside the cover of Beyond Life there were the titles of no less than fourteen books. I could see from the one which I held in my hand that Mr. Cabell was no careless writer. He had been writing then for many years and he was unobtainable! 'No, he has never had any success,' a bookseller told me. 'No one ever asks for his books.' That situation is now changed. There are, I imagine, a great many more persons in the United States of America asking for Jurgen than are likely to obtain it. That good, at any rate, an idiotic censorship has done. 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