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“And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don't you understand? Psychiatry is worse than communism. I refuse to be brainwashed. I won't be a robot!”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should’st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can’st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can’st not go mad?”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Back’s spout is so similar to the Sperm Whale’s, that by unskilful fishermen it is often mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
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36 friends
96 books
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14 books
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0 books
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1 book
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193 books
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4,955 books
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900 books
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