James Branch Cabell Famous Books QuotesJames Branch Cabell A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book means thereafter, perforce, - both grammatically and actually, - whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. James Branch Cabell BestQuotes4Ever.com A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book means thereafter, perforce, - both grammatically and actually, - whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. |
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