6 Quotes About Ishmael

Ishmael is the captain of the whaler Pequod. The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville begins with Ishmael’s account of his adventures at sea. It is told in the first person, but Ishmael’s voice does not always agree with that of the other characters. Some critics have described him as a comic character, others as an unreliable narrator, and still others as a reliable narrator whose emotions are often in conflict with his statements.

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
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for...
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In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. Ishmael Beah
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We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon. Daniel Quinn
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That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's. Marilynne Robinson
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There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap. Jerry Mooney