Sunday, May 8, 2022

Favorite Moby Dick quotes

...I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

...there floated into my innermost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.

Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. (Of the bar keep at the Spouter)
Though true cylinders without-within, the villainous green giggling glasses deceitful tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
Sartainty

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition state-neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner.

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