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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Then he started to fold the blanket.
2 "Because he came here the most times," the old man said.
3 "If you were my boy I'd take you out and gamble," he said.
4 He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility.
5 "Tomorrow is going to be a good day with this current," he said.
6 But he was rough and harsh-spoken and difficult when he was drinking.
7 The boy left him there and when he came back the old man was still asleep.
8 The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away.
9 They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry.
10 But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
11 Five and you nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces.
12 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.
13 He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he heard the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it.
14 Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.
15 He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.
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 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.
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