Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
("The Old Man and the Sea")
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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.Ernest Hemingway
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I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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