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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 I wish I could see the glow from the lights, he thought.
2 He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly.
3 Then he opened and closed them on it lightly to loosen them.
4 He sailed lightly now and he had no thoughts nor any feelings of any kind.
5 He lifted it as lightly as he could because his hands rebelled at the pain.
6 He only noticed how lightly and how well the skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her.
7 He saw the reflected glare of the lights of the city at what must have been around ten o'clock at night.
8 The odds would change back and forth all night and they fed the negro rum and lighted cigarettes for him.
9 When he sailed into the little harbour the lights of the Terrace were out and he knew everyone was in bed.
10 He could feel he was inside the current now and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore.
11 Her lightness prolongs both our suffering but it is my safety since he has great speed that he has never yet employed.
12 But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead.
13 I may lose so much line that I will lose him, if he makes his effort and the drag made by the oars is in place and the boat loses all her lightness.
14 There was much betting and people went in and out of the room under the kerosene lights and he had looked at the arm and hand of the negro and at the negro's face.
15 As it went down, slipping lightly through the old man's fingers, he still could feel the great weight, though the pressure of his thumb and finger were almost imperceptible.
16 From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments and swam between them and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted.