22 Quotes About Moby-dick

  • Author Mark Beauregard
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    I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me.

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    #moby-dick
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I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me.

-Mark Beauregard

If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak like great whales

-Goldsmith and Johnson

I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!" Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete

-Byron Edgington

  • Author Francine Pascal
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    She’ll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

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    #moby-dick #sweet-valley #whales
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She’ll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

-Francine Pascal

 

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