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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Now is the time to think of only one thing.
2 Now is no time to think of baseball, he thought.
3 The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.
4 He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin.
5 "Then live a long time and take care of yourself," the old man said.
6 For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch.
7 Some time before daylight something took one of the baits that were behind him.
8 I can do that a little later and lash the oars to make a drag at the same time.
9 Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
10 It was cold now in the time before daylight and he pushed against the wood to be warm.
11 This time it was a tentative pull, not solid nor heavy, and he knew exactly what it was.
12 For a long time after that everyone had called him The Champion and there had been a return match in the spring.
13 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.
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 As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at Casablanca when he had played the hand game with the great negro from Cienfuegos who was the strongest man on the docks.
16 The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that soon exhausted her, and all the time the male had stayed with her, crossing the line and circling with her on the surface.
17 It jumped again and again in the acrobatics of its fear and he worked his way back to the stern and crouching and holding the big line with his right hand and arm, he pulled the dolphin in with his left hand, stepping on the gained line each time with his bare left foot.
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