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Moby dick quotes. Quotes from the epic novel show why it has endured as an american classic. Think not is my eleventh commandment. Side away to larboard larboard gangway to starboard. Obsession the path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run.

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It is an evil voyage i tell thee. It is hard indeed not to feel that moby dick would have been somewhat different from what it is if melville had not known the lusiads. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. Election day is november 3rd.

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All evil to crazy ahab were visibly personified and made practically assailable in moby dick. Midships chapter 9 pg. I turned in and never slept better in my life chapter 3 pg. Newton arvin herman melville 1950 i can assure you ernest hemingway was wrong when he said modern american literature began with huckleberry finn.

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