FISH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 A pot of yellow rice with fish.
2 Fish, you are going to have to die anyway.
3 Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much.
4 "The month when the great fish come," the old man said.
5 The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
6 "I'll give him the belly meat of a big fish," the old man said.
7 There was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the boy knew this too.
8 Five and you nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces.
9 He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
10 The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords.
11 They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish.
12 He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife.
13 The box with the baits was under the stern of the skiff along with the club that was used to subdue the big fish when they were brought alongside.
14 Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to the surface at night where all the wandering fish fed on them.
15 In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness.
16 The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks, with two men staggering at the end of each plank, to the fish house where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana.
17 He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean.
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