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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'


A. N. Wilson

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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
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N. T. WRIGHT To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER