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The Old Man and the Sea quotes

Ernest Hemingway

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“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Pain does not matter to a man.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“It is silly not to hope . . . Besides I believe it is a sin.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is...” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“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.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Fish . . . I'll stay with you until I am dead.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Everything kills everything else in some way.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. . . . I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“I may not be as strong as I think . . . But I know many tricks and I have resolution.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“First you borrow. Then you beg.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“luck . . . I'd like to buy some if there's any place they sell it” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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