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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Perhaps he is too wise to jump.
2 "God let him jump," the old man said.
3 I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought.
4 He could ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush.
5 That did not necessarily mean that he would jump.
6 He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was.
7 There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
8 Just then the fish jumped making a great bursting of the ocean and then a heavy fall.
9 Maybe if I can increase the tension just a little it will hurt him and he will jump, he thought.
10 Then the line would not come in any more and he held it until he saw the drops jumping from it in the sun.
11 He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
12 His line was strong and made for heavy fish and he held it against his back until it was so taut that beads of water were jumping from it.
13 And now he has jumped more than a dozen times and filled the sacks along his back with air and he cannot go down deep to die where I cannot bring him up.
14 Then he jumped again and again and the boat was going fast although line was still racing out and the old man was raising the strain to breaking point and raising it to breaking point again and again.
15 The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.
16 It jumped again and again in the acrobatics of its fear and he worked his way back to the stern and crouching and holding the big line with his right hand and arm, he pulled the dolphin in with his left hand, stepping on the gained line each time with his bare left foot.
17 Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing.
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