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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 I have no cramps and I feel strong.
2 "Be calm and strong, old man," he said.
3 But I must kill him and keep strong to do it.
4 "It is a strong full-blooded fish," he thought.
5 "I may not be as strong as I think," the old man said.
6 Maybe it will open when the strong raw tuna is digested.
7 I am sure he would and more since he is young and strong.
8 Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely.
9 I must remember to eat the tuna before he spoils in order to keep strong.
10 But he was such a calm, strong fish and he seemed so fearless and so confident.
11 He ate them all through May to be strong in September and October for the truly big fish.
12 No matter what passes I must gut the dolphin so he does not spoil and eat some of him to be strong.
13 His line was strong and made for heavy fish and he held it against his back until it was so taut that beads of water were jumping from it.
14 They were moving more slowly now and the glow of Havana was not so strong, so that he knew the current must be carrying them to the eastward.
15 The flow was less strong and as he rubbed the side of his hand against the planking of the skiff, particles of phosphorus floated off and drifted slowly astern.
16 They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward.
17 He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and he thought, "The birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones."
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