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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

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Kelly’s Quotes

“The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.”
― Michael Lee

tags: author, edit, editor, writing

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“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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“Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: death, humour, philosophical

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“My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.”
― Mary Ruefle, Trances of the Blast

tags: happiness

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“I do not think I really have anything to say about poetry other than remarking that it is a wandering little drift of unidentified sound, and trying to say more reminds me of following the sound of a thrush into the woods on a summer's eve - if you persist in following the thrush it will only recede deeper and deeper into the woods; you will never actually see the thrush (the hermit thrush is especially shy), but I suppose listening is a kind of knowledge, or as close as one can come." (viii)”
― Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

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