Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story Quotes
He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.
Original sin is a very commercial idea, ” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?
Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.
Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.