SHARK in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 It was an hour before the first shark hit him.
2 But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought.
3 It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
4 He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in.
5 The old man knew that he was dead but the shark would not accept it.
6 He prepared the harpoon and made the rope fast while he watched the shark come on.
7 The shark lay quietly for a little while on the surface and the old man watched him.
8 He leaned over the side and pulled loose a piece of the meat of the fish where the shark had cut him.
9 Then, on his back, with his tail lashing and his jaws clicking, the shark plowed over the water as a speed-boat does.
10 When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished.
11 He also drank a cup of shark liver oil each day from the big drum in the shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear.
12 He was a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws.
13 The shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was not alive and then he swung over once again, wrapping himself in two loops of the rope.
14 The shark closed fast astern and when he hit the fish the old man saw his mouth open and his strange eyes and the clicking chop of the teeth as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail.
15 When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
16 Those who had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory on the other side of the cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle, their livers removed, their fins cut off and their hides skinned out and their flesh cut into strips for salting.
17 The shark's head was out of water and his back was coming out and the old man could hear the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish when he rammed the harpoon down onto the shark's head at a spot where the line between his eyes intersected with the line that ran straight back from his nose.
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