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Brief author info: James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) American novelist and essayist.

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

James Branch Cabell

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Branch Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation resisted.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

- Ann Landers

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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

- Judith Guest

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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

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You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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