Herman Melville Quotes
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor. Edited by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts Jr., University of Chicago Press, 1962, p. 128.
Unfortunately, Islamic politicians have no more followed this dictum then there non-Muslim counterparts have.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.
