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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Not as long as he keeps this up.
2 You did not stay long, the man thought.
3 I can do it as long as he can, he thought.
4 The mast was nearly as long as the one room of the shack.
5 My right hand can hold it as long as it is braced, he thought.
6 "Then live a long time and take care of yourself," the old man said.
7 For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch.
8 The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away.
9 Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.
10 He was sorry for them all, even the great trunk backs that were as long as the skiff and weighed a ton.
11 It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water.
12 For a long time after that everyone had called him The Champion and there had been a return match in the spring.
13 The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it.
14 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.
15 The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.
16 Its jaws were working convulsively in quick bites against the hook and it pounded the bottom of the skiff with its long flat body, its tail and its head until he clubbed it across the shining golden head until it shivered and was still.
17 His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out.
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