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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Then the weight increased and he gave more line.
2 He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly.
3 Then he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.
4 He shipped his oars and brought a small line from under the bow.
5 Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow.
6 He had three forty-fathom coils of line in reserve now, as well as the coil he was using.
7 I could just drift, he thought, and sleep and put a bight of line around my toe to wake me.
8 He reached out for the line and held it softly between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand.
9 The old man held the line delicately, and softly, with his left hand, unleashed it from the stick.
10 It was the weight of the fish and he let the line slip down, down, down, unrolling off the first of the two reserve coils.
11 The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it.
12 He waited with the line between his thumb and his finger, watching it and the other lines at the same time for the fish might have swum up or down.
13 When they reached the old man's shack the boy took the rolls of line in the basket and the harpoon and gaff and the old man carried the mast with the furled sail on his shoulder.
14 He let the line slip through his fingers while he reached down with his left hand and made fast the free end of the two reserve coils to the loop of the two reserve coils of the next line.
15 Just then the stern line came taut under his foot, where he had kept a loop of the line, and he dropped his oars and felt the weight of the small tuna's shivering pull as he held the line firm and commenced to haul it in.
16 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.
17 Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty-fathom coils which could be made fast to the other spare coils so that, if it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.
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