There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I have a Thompson SubMachine gun and we shoot sharks with it. As soon as they put their heads out we give… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Half fish," he said. "Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The fish is my friend too," he said aloud. "I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this," he said. "Now that I have him coming so beautifully,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Qué va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you." "Thank you. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Nick did not want to go in there now. He felt a reaction against deep wading with the water deepening up under… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The fish is my friend too,” he said aloud. “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September. He lay against the worn wood of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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