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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 There are three things that are brothers: the fish and my two hands.
2 He felt the maw heavy and slippery in his hands and he slit it open.
3 Just then he felt a sudden banging and jerking on the line he held with his two hands.
4 But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
5 The old man was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking strength.
6 He knew he would need his hands before this was over and he did not like to be cut before it started.
7 Then he took two turns of the harpoon line around the bitt in the bow and laid his head on his hands.
8 I must cushion the pull of the line with my body and at all times be ready to give line with both hands.
9 He started to work his way back to the stern on his hands and knees, being careful not to jerk against the fish.
10 I'll try it again, the old man promised, although his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes.
11 He used both of his hands in a swinging motion and tried to do the pulling as much as he could with his body and his legs.
12 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.
13 They had gone one day and one night with their elbows on a chalk line on the table and their forearms straight up and their hands gripped tight.
14 But he cleared the harpoon line and let it run slowly through his raw hands and, when he could see, he saw the fish was on his back with his silver belly up.
15 The speed of the line was cutting his hands badly but he had always known this would happen and he tried to keep the cutting across the calloused parts and not let the line slip into the palm nor cut the fingers.
16 Blood came out from under the fingernails of both his and the negro's hands and they looked each other in the eye and at their hands and forearms and the bettors went in and out of the room and sat on high chairs against the wall and watched.
17 But men were not and when some of the filaments would catch on a line and rest there slimy and purple while the old man was working a fish, he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give.
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