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I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man — Ron Swanson
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. — Django Wylie, The Middle
She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. — Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden sou — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin — David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board. — Ray Bradbury
They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chin — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale