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Captain Ahab:
Birds... the birds... *He rises*!
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Captain Ahab:
Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take these harpoons and lances. Melt them down. Forge me new weapons that will strike deep and hold fast. But do not douse them in water; they must have a proper baptism. What say ye, all ye men? Will you give as much blood as shall be needed to temper the steel?
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Captain Ahab:
By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike.
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Captain Ahab:
Captain Gardner, I seek the white whale, your own son's murderer. I am losing time... Goodbye, and fare thee well, I say. God help you, Captain Gardiner.
Captain Gardiner: God forgive you, Captain Ahab.
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Captain Ahab:
From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Captain Ahab:
I don't give reasons. I give orders!
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Captain Ahab:
I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition's flames before I give him up.
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Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Father Mapple:
Delight is to him who coming to day him down can say, "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
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Orson Welles
(as Father Mapple)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Ishmael:
[in voice-over narration] He did not feel the wind, or smell the salt air. He only stood, staring at the horizon, with the marks of some inner crucifixion and woe deep in his face.
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Richard Basehart
(as Ishmael)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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Ishmael:
[in voice-over narration] Long days and nights we strained at the oars while a white whale swam freely on, widening the waters between himself and Ahab's vengeance.
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Richard Basehart
(as Ishmael)
in
Moby Dick
(1956)
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