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“What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad -- Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! - Capt. Ahab.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“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.”
― Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
― Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
“If you allow it, wealth creates a moral slipstream in which the man or woman in possession of great fortune can travel. People without means can be immoral too, but, like everything, they usually have to work much harder at it. (On Money, pp. 80-1.)”
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“and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
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“As we talked, I came to understand that hope is like a happy childhood; it equips its beneficiaries to deal with the traumas that inevitably ensue. It is experienced as primal love. (p.15)”
― Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
― Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
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