Quote topic: Voyages & Cruising
The ultimate word is I LIKE. It lies beneath philosophy,…
From London’s explanation of why he set out on the Snark voyage. Capitals as in the source.
O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it,…
Spoken by Conrad’s narrator, Marlow, looking back on the barque Judea.
Then leaving the Cape Verde Islands out of sight astern,…
Source wording preserved exactly.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever…
Spoken by the narrator, Ishmael. The ellipsis marks clauses omitted from the middle of one long sentence; the opening and closing wording is exact.
I felt that there could be no turning back, and…
Slocum on sailing out of Boston at the start of the voyage, April 1895.
The acute pain of solitude experienced at first never returned.…
Source wording preserved exactly.