6 Quotes About Herman-Melville

A wise man once said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” These quotes prove the statement true. They show how our false image can make us feel better even while it hurts us in the long run. So smile when you are happy, laugh when you are with friends, and remember that you are loved for the real you.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
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But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. Herman Melville
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all,...
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And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell. Herman Melville
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. Django Wylie
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In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat, " and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls. David Foster Wallace
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Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board. Ray Bradbury