James Branch Cabell Quote

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.


"Auctorial Induction" - The Certain Hour (1916)


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...

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...

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...

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...