GREAT FISH 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 had seen many great fish.
2 "The month when the great fish come," the old man said.
3 He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought.
4 Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked.
5 He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in.
6 He felt faint again now but he held on the great fish all the strain that he could.
7 But what a great fish he is and what he will bring in the market if the flesh is good.
8 There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good tasting.
9 Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him.
10 He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife.
11 "I wish the boy was here," he said aloud and settled himself against the rounded planks of the bow and felt the strength of the great fish through the line he held across his shoulders moving steadily toward whatever he had chosen.