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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Perhaps I was only better armed.
2 The sun was on the old man's left arm and shoulder and on his back.
3 So he did that with the tiller under his arm and the sheet of the sail under his foot.
4 The newspaper lay across his knees and the weight of his arm held it there in the evening breeze.
5 The skiff was sailing well considering the handicaps and he steered with the tiller under his arm.
6 He held the tiller under his arm and soaked both his hands in the water as the skiff drove forward.
7 It was cold after the sun went down and the old man's sweat dried cold on his back and his arms and his old legs.
8 This was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy.
9 Holding the line with his left shoulder again, and bracing on his left hand and arm, he took the tuna off the gaff hook and put the gaff back in place.
10 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.
11 He pulled the blanket over his shoulders and then over his back and legs and he slept face down on the newspapers with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up.
12 Then he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed and there was a norther and he was very cold and his right arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow.
13 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.
14 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.