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A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• On Purpose
• There was nothing anyone could do
• The Comment Which Broke Slashdot
• Evolving languages
• Yes. We know.
• Usability 101
• But she did.
• Six word stories
• Full Circle
• To use violence successfully

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The Fates' lieutenant

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthy thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?"

-- Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders."

-- Herman Melville, Moby Dick

[ 15 November 2006 11:05 am submitted by Unknown ]

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