“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
5 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“I would prefer not to.”
“Call me Ishmael.”
“Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.”
“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”