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  2. 2,286 books. view quotes. Apr 30, 2020 01:30PM. Peter O'Toole — ‘My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick.’.

    • “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale.
    • “It is not down on any map; true places never are.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale.
    • “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale.
    • “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale.
    • “When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. ” ― Peter O'Toole.
    • “I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.” ― Peter O'Toole.
    • “I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.” ― Peter O'Toole.
    • “I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….”
  3. Melville implies that the true subject of Ahab’s pursuit is impossible to achieve. Despite his unquenchable desire to pin down and gain control over Moby Dick, the expansive reach of the White Whale has far more power than one man ever could.

  4. 25 of the best book quotes from Moby Dick. All mortal greatness is but disease. I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. It is not down on any map; true places never are. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

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