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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 You work now, fish, he thought.
2 "Get to work, old man," he said.
3 The hands have done their work and we sail well.
4 "I'll try to get him to work far out," the boy said.
5 He will start circling soon and then I must work on him.
6 Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.
7 But he had finished it anyway and before anyone had to go to work.
8 Today I'll work out where the schools of bonita and albacore are and maybe there will be a big one with them.
9 I'll rest now while he goes out on the circle and then stand up and work on him when he comes in, he decided.
10 Now I will pay attention to my work and then I must eat the tuna so that I will not have a failure of strength.
11 He started to work his way back to the stern on his hands and knees, being careful not to jerk against the fish.
12 After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and cut it away too and link up the reserve coils.
13 Now I will rest an hour more and feel that he is solid and steady before I move back to the stern to do the work and make the decision.
14 Many of the bettors had asked for a draw because they had to go to work on the docks loading sacks of sugar or at the Havana Coal Company.
15 He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour.
16 You have only yourself and you had better work back to the last line now, in the dark or not in the dark, and cut it away and hook up the two reserve coils.
17 With his prayers said, and feeling much better, but suffering exactly as much, and perhaps a little more, he leaned against the wood of the bow and began, mechanically, to work the fingers of his left hand.
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