Top 18 Quotes About Melville Literature

#1. Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

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#2. Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

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#3. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold

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#4. It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

Herman Melville

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#5. The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible; for the nature of life in the islands commands attention to the vivid world and its even more vivid inhabitants.

James A. Michener

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#6. Why do the men come, do you suppose?" "Who knows why men do anything?

Richard Adams

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#7. The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

Herman Melville

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#8. I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

Louise Nurding

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#9. Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.

Jessie Burton

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#10. If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.

Bret Easton Ellis

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#11. I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.

Nicole Scherzinger

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#12. Why should we believe people who constantly try to push these trade agreements and won't even admit when one has gone wrong? It makes working people feel like the process is rigged. The reason is, it is rigged.

Russ Feingold

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#13. Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Alexander Haig

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#14. The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Herman Melville

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#15. Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

Herman Melville

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#16. I've recently come to the conclusion that the nursery rhyme riddle is the most basic form of the detective story. It's a mystery stripped of all but the essential facts. Take this one, for instance: As

Alan Bradley

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#17. Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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#18. It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey

Harold Holzer

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