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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Far out to come in when the wind shifts.
2 The wind is our friend, anyway, he thought.
3 He only needed the feel of the trade wind and the drawing of the sail.
4 I'm tireder than I have ever been, he thought, and now the trade wind is rising.
5 There was more wind in the sky than there had been, and soon he hoped that he would see land.
6 It looked now as though he were moving into a great canyon of clouds and the wind had dropped.
7 There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
8 But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead.
9 The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
10 When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
11 That afternoon there was a party of tourists at the Terrace and looking down in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracudas a woman saw a great long white spine with a huge tail at the end that lifted and swung with the tide while the east wind blew a heavy steady sea outside the entrance to the harbour.