Moby Dick är en sån Walden

Sitter och söker ett specifikt citat från Moby Dick, och slås av hur lika de här böckerna är. Och med det menar jag: vilken liknande läsupplevelse de utgjorde. Båda är källor till helt fantastiska citat och oneliners, men var så tråkiga att jag var redo att kasta mig i sjön redan halvvägs. Både böckerna är fullkomliga plågor att sega sig igenom, men lockar in läsaren genom kända och roliga citat. Ett axplock är.

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. ”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Eller vad säger ni om:

"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls."
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Men låt er inte luras, de här guldkornen är väl gömda i sida efter sida seg som kola.