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Herman Melville — Portrait after a picture by Joseph Oriel Eaton (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Herman Melville

American writer and poet

1819–1891

37 quotes, most often on Writing, Truth & Lies and Philosophy.

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges…
Billy Budd, Sailor (1891), Ch. 28
- Truth & Lies
- Writing
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
- Writing
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CIVIn context
- Writing

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