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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 They picked up the gear from the boat.
2 Sometimes someone would speak in a boat.
3 "Yes," and shipped his oars without bumping the boat.
4 The bird made the stern of the boat and rested there.
5 The boat began to move slowly off toward the North-West.
6 During the night two porpoise came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing.
7 The boat moved steadily and when the first edge of the sun rose it was on the old man's right shoulder.
8 Five and you nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces.
9 The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boat and the fish came out.
10 He thought of how some men feared being out of sight of land in a small boat and knew they were right in the months of sudden bad weather.
11 The shivering increased as he pulled in and he could see the blue back of the fish in the water and the gold of his sides before he swung him over the side and into the boat.
12 He lay in the stern in the sun, compact and bullet shaped, his big, unintelligent eyes staring as he thumped his life out against the planking of the boat with the quick shivering strokes of his neat, fast-moving tail.
13 But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.
14 Shifting the weight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged, for more than a minute watching the blood trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat moved.
15 No one would steal from the old man but it was better to take the sail and the heavy lines home as the dew was bad for them and, though he was quite sure no local people would steal from him, the old man thought that a gaff and a harpoon were needless temptations to leave in a boat.
16 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.
17 When the old man had gaffed her and clubbed her, holding the rapier bill with its sandpaper edge and clubbing her across the top of her head until her colour turned to a colour almost like the backing of mirrors, and then, with the boy's aid, hoisted her aboard, the male fish had stayed by the side of the boat.
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