TURTLES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 He had no mysticism about turtles although he had gone in turtle boats for many years.
2 He had no mysticism about turtles although he had gone in turtle boats for many years.
3 In the turtle boats I was in the cross-trees of the mast-head and even at that height I saw much.
4 But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.
5 Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.
6 Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.
7 The turtles saw them, approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all.
8 He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats.
9 The old man loved to see the turtles eat them and he loved to walk on them on the beach after a storm and hear them pop when he stepped on them with the horny soles of his feet.
10 It was these sharks that would cut the turtles' legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep on the surface, and they would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
11 He loved green turtles and hawks-bills with their elegance and speed and their great value and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads, yellow in their armour-plating, strange in their love-making, and happily eating the Portuguese men-of-war with their eyes shut.