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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 "The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see," the old man said.
2 He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean.
3 Just then the fish jumped making a great bursting of the ocean and then a heavy fall.
4 Then they were steady to see across the ocean which was rough now with the increasing breeze.
5 He could not see the fish's jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell.
6 The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boat and the fish came out.
7 They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.
8 They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish.
9 The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.
10 Then he shifted the heavy line from his right hand to his left and washed his right hand in the sea while he watched the sun go into the ocean and the slant of the big cord.
11 He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current.
12 Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin.
13 Shifting the weight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged, for more than a minute watching the blood trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat moved.
14 He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean.