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Herman Melville

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Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.


— Herman Melville


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and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.


— Herman Melville


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...oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.


— Herman Melville


#liars #oaths #equality

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)


— Herman Melville


#age

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.


— Herman Melville


#science

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.


— Herman Melville


#art

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.


— Herman Melville


#anger

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.


— Herman Melville


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An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.


— Herman Melville


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but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade


— Herman Melville


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At first his progress on Moby-Dick moved swiftly. In June he described the book to his English publiHerman Melviller as "a romance of adventure founded upon certain wild legends in the Southern Sperm Whale FiHerman Melvilleries" and promised it would be done by the fall. Melville also wrote Billy Budd White-Jacket Israel Potter Redburn Typee Omoo Pierre The Confidence-Man and many short stories including "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" and "Benito Cereno" and works of various genres.

In 1919 the unfiniHerman Melvilled manuscript for his novella Billy Budd was discovered by his first biographer. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist short story writer essayist and poet.

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