THE OLD MAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 The old man drank his coffee slowly.
2 The old man could see that he was very tired.
3 The old man went out the door and the boy came after him.
4 The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
5 The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
6 The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
7 The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away.
8 The old man's head was very old though and with his eyes closed there was no life in his face.
9 The old man held the line delicately, and softly, with his left hand, unleashed it from the stick.
10 The old man nodded and the boy took his trousers from the chair by the bed and, sitting on the bed, pulled them on.
11 The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish.
12 The old man hit him on the head for kindness and kicked him, his body still shuddering, under the shade of the stern.
13 The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it.
14 The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.
15 The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden box with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft.
16 The old man loved to see the turtles eat them and he loved to walk on them on the beach after a storm and hear them pop when he stepped on them with the horny soles of his feet.
17 The old man would have liked to keep his hand in the salt water longer but he was afraid of another sudden lurch by the fish and he stood up and braced himself and held his hand up against the sun.
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