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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!   Melville, Herman

Excerpt from Moby Dick: or, the White Whale · This quote is about writers and writing · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. During his lifetime his early novels were popular, but his popularity declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had nearly been forgotten, but his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, was "rediscovered."

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