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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.... (more Herman Melville quotes)
In 1843, he spent four months working as a clerk in Honolulu.
When Melville died in New York City at the age of seventy-two, he was so little known that the New York Times gave his name in its obituary column as 'Henry Melville.'
His most famous book, Moby Dick, was not a great success in Melville's life-time. Harper's printed 3,000 copies for the first edition in 1851, but forty years later they had still not sold out. Melville's total ear... (more Herman Melville trivia)
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