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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Perhaps in an hour I will see him.
2 He rested for what he believed to be two hours.
3 Even if I sleep twenty minutes or a half an hour it is good.
4 For if the fish's course held true I must see it for many more hours.
5 It is not the hand's fault and you have been many hours with the fish.
6 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
7 There are two more hours before the sun sets and maybe he will come up before that.
8 The sun was two hours higher now and it did not hurt his eyes so much to look into the east.
9 They changed the referees every four hours after the first eight so that the referees could sleep.
10 But the fish kept on circling slowly and the old man was wet with sweat and tired deep into his bones two hours later.
11 Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.
12 Now I will rest an hour more and feel that he is solid and steady before I move back to the stern to do the work and make the decision.
13 But it was no worse than getting up at the hours that they rose and it was very good against all colds and grippes and it was good for the eyes.
14 For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead.
15 He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour.
16 But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back.
17 He had sailed for two hours, resting in the stern and sometimes chewing a bit of the meat from the marlin, trying to rest and to be strong, when he saw the first of the two sharks.
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