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Andrew Bendelow
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"But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy." — Herman Melville | |
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"It is not down on any map; true places never are." — Herman Melville | |
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"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began. Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!" — Herman Melville | |
| December 05, 2009 | ||
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Andrew
marked as to-read:
Confidence-man: His Masquerade (Paperback) by Herman Melville |
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Andrew
added Moby-Dick: or, The Whale to the book list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
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The Once and Future King (Paperback) by T.H. White |
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback) by Barbara Kingsolver |
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The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback) by Sue Monk Kidd |
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The Lovely Bones (Paperback) by Alice Sebold |
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
— Theodore Roosevelt
— Theodore Roosevelt
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own."
— Herman Melville (Moby-Dick: or, The Whale)
— Herman Melville (Moby-Dick: or, The Whale)
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
— Theodore Roosevelt
— Theodore Roosevelt
"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."
— Theodore Roosevelt
— Theodore Roosevelt
