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“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

“He had outlived the luxurious agonies of youthful blood, and in this very freedom from illusion he recognised the loss of something. From now…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a…

— Seneca

“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.”

— Ovid

“But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of…

— Amor Towles

“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister…

— Honoré de Balzac

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went…

— Walter Lord

“He’d discovered that most of the terrors that stalked the night weren’t really terrors at all. They were mostly like regular folks, just trying…

— A. Lee Martinez

“suddenly stopped myself, knowing, by an inverse logic familiar to superstitious people, that the very foretaste of sorrows to come presumed a degree of…

— André Aciman