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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 "He'll take it," the old man said aloud.
2 But that will be good to take him in with.
3 "Let us take the stuff home," the boy said.
4 The jumps were necessary for him to take air.
5 "If you were my boy I'd take you out and gamble," he said.
6 "Then live a long time and take care of yourself," the old man said.
7 "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said.
8 It was all he would have all day and he knew that he should take it.
9 In the other league, between Brooklyn and Philadelphia I must take Brooklyn.
10 "I have," the old man said getting up and taking the newspaper and folding it.
11 I am sorry I cannot hoist the sail and take you in with the small breeze that is rising.
12 He closed them firmly so they would take the pain now and would not flinch and watched the sharks come.
13 He knew that if he could not slow the fish with a steady pressure the fish could take out all the line and break it.
14 He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
15 In the darkness he loosened his sheath knife and taking all the strain of the fish on his left shoulder he leaned back and cut the line against the wood of the gunwale.
16 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.
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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