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Nathaniel Philbrick has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing…
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People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my…
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Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and…
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
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In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and,…
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I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to
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His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a…
— Paulo Coelho
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There…
— Noam Chomsky
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Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;…
— Thomas Adams
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then…
— Amy Poehler
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself;…
— Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
— Salman Rushdie
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And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
— Bible
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So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself…
— Bible
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Captain Ahab: I do not sleep, I die.
— Moby Dick
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Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.
— Wordfaith3
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