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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 But they went through this fiction every day.
2 In the first forty days a boy had been with him.
3 But today is eighty-five days and I should fish the day well.
4 He used to come to the Terrace sometimes too in the older days.
5 "Tomorrow is going to be a good day with this current," he said.
6 Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought.
7 It was all he would have all day and he knew that he should take it.
8 It is half a day and a night and now another day and you have not slept.
9 I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day.
10 He had a bottle of water in the bow of the skiff and that was all he needed for the day.
11 During the day he had taken the sack that covered the bait box and spread it in the sun to dry.
12 If I had brains I would have splashed water on the bow all day and drying, it would have made salt, he thought.
13 He also drank a cup of shark liver oil each day from the big drum in the shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear.
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 They had gone one day and one night with their elbows on a chalk line on the table and their forearms straight up and their hands gripped tight.
16 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.
17 The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks, with two men staggering at the end of each plank, to the fish house where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana.
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