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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 The lines all mean nothing now.
2 He did not hurry and he kept his lines straight up and down.
3 Make yourself do it and devise some simple and sure way about the lines.
4 Just then, watching his lines, he saw one of the projecting green sticks dip sharply.
5 After all I abused it much in the night when it was necessary to free and unite the various lines.
6 He looked down into the water and watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water.
7 He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gaff and drew it toward him keeping it clear of the coiled lines.
8 He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish.
9 He waited with the line between his thumb and his finger, watching it and the other lines at the same time for the fish might have swum up or down.
10 Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths.
11 The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden box with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft.
12 But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen.
13 It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast.
14 The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down into the water that was a mile deep.
15 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.
16 Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing.
17 The boy had given him two fresh small tunas, or albacores, which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before; but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness.
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