DARKNESS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Make another turn in the dark and come back and eat them.
2 The sea was very dark and the light made prisms in the water.
3 The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple.
4 Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.
5 How fresh they are and you down there six hundred feet in that cold water in the dark.
6 He looked down into the water and watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water.
7 His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries.
8 They had eaten with no light on the table and the old man took off his trousers and went to bed in the dark.
9 As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now.
10 He knew what a huge fish this was and he thought of him moving away in the darkness with the tuna held crosswise in his mouth.
11 They walked down the road to the old man's shack and all along the road, in the dark, barefoot men were moving, carrying the masts of their boats.
12 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.
13 He fitted the rope lashings of the oars onto the thole pins and, leaning forward against the thrust of the blades in the water, he began to row out of the harbour in the dark.
14 He kept them straighter than anyone did, so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there.
15 In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness.
16 In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness.
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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