“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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“My big fish must be somewhere.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Variant: Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Variant: But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. 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.
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“Be patient, hand," he said. "I do this for you.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
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