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Herman Melville

Date of Birth:

01-Aug-1819

Nationality:

United States

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Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He served as a member of several sailors starting in 1839, his experience receiving his first successful novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851), were sold out, and by the 1860's Melville had become a poet. After his death in New York City in 1891, he was eventually regarded as one of America's greatest writers.

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
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"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
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"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
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"I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one."
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"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian."
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"It is not down on any map; true places never are."
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"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."
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"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
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"I try all things, I achieve what I can."
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"I would prefer not to."
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"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
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"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men"
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