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But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Strangest problems of life seem clearing — but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, wi — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large — Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Herman Melville came to see me at the Consulate, looking much as he used to do (a little paler, and perhaps a little sad — Nathaniel Hawthorne
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author — Herman Melville
The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back — Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the roy — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. — Marti Melville
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. — Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affectio — Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
I would prefer not to. — Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame image had — L.L. Barkat, The Novelist
Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before th — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the deser — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
We are the pioneers of the world — the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...
But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the — Robert Stone
It's only his outside — a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. — Django Wylie, The Middle