Status Updates From The Old Man and the Sea

"Of course. With coast guard and with planes." The planes that passed over him . . .

"You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

"It was too good to last, he thought. I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.

'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.'"

NOT THE SHARKSSS

"You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing . . . "

"After he judged that his right hand had been in the water long enough he took it out and looked at it. 'It is not bad,' he said. 'And pain does not matter to a man.'"