Quotes about “old man and the sea”
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will i never be free? if i'd known that the fucking cultural footprint of this thing would come to define my generational cohort, i would have sucked it up and read the fucking books and seen the movies at age 11, okay? sorry, my ass was too busy reading the old man and the sea. sorry, i was too busy reading slaughterhouse five, fahrenheit 451, and my teacher's an alien. i didn't have time for harry potter and the chamber of secrets, okay?
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a rejected protip if your answer is a reference i'm probably not gonna vote for it. a rejected less scary title for the movie jaws. sharktime movie game or the old man and the sea? i'm gonna vote for it but i'm angry. you're dead right there's no way. it's a reference, it's a reference! i voted old man and the sea. thank you josh. if old man and the sea wins i will just i don't want hard clowns!
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wait wait why yeah, no shark time movie game is a meme the old man in the sea wins 53 to 47 shooting down the memes the weirdest talent a beauty pageant contestant could showcase neatest labia or showcasing maps and such
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you got that last time too, rob. 800. the mojito, a rum and lime juice drink, was said to be a favorite of this old man in the sea author. corey? who is ernest hemingway? he's ernest hemingway. god damn it, i remembered it too. 1000. the answer. leading to greater italian unity, this man and his red shirts won control of sicily in 1860.
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not the sea mammal yes, you're correct like the auditory response have you seen korean old boy? yes? i believe it's called the old boy. we don't speak about the american one, please save me watch koya make koya nekatsu in high school. i was the only one who thought it was man hey, i spotted the dude who went to the private high school and
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okay, sell me? i can't believe i bought a squirrel. you know how in rat race kathy bates says you should have bought a squirrel? i took her up on it man. i took her up on it. i'll tell you what give me one of these and then i send it back. the sea was angry that day my friends like an old man trying to return soup at the deli counter. this seems not great. that might be a prodigious understatement. yeah we're dead okay we can run one more back though.
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still dealing with some shit from like a month and a half ago kayak angler toward 11 miles towed 11 miles in life and death battle with marlin that is welcome back ernest hemingway the old man in the sea i'm getting pissed off too because i don't know somehow i've found myself being fed into the anti intellectual algorithm on x to everything app. i know you're gonna say that's everything posted there yeah, but this is like outwardly so it's not even trying to conceal it and
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so there's like this ernest hemingway quote that's going around that's like, there is no symbolism in the old man in the sea, it's about a man and a fish. and people like quote tweeted and they're like, this is why hemingway is like the most based author. and i'm like, he's playing a joke on you, you dumb motherfucker. have you read the book? this shit is about a man and a fish, but it's about so much more than a man and a fish. it's a 73 page metaphor, motherfucker, if you actually read the book.
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i'm looking forward to that, it's gonna be fun. i like that it's making me watch a movie too, which is great, you know? true. i've been thinking about, i think it'd be fun to like once a month just tell chat like, y'all watch this movie this month. yeah, that's a good idea. and then we're gonna talk about the movie at the end of the month. it's like a book club without reading. that's true, books would be better if they only took like two hours to read. for real. although i've noticed like there's just some short books out there, which is kind of tight. old man and the sea is like,
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oh man, that's a foundational work in my house. chat, you called it. your submission for 36 was accepted. the question was how old are you? they had to check. for some damned reason, jack black and adrien brody have only been in the same movie once. yeah, bitch, it's called king kong as directed by peter jackson. it's the easiest question of all time. among the several named for characters in the perseus myth, which constellation is specifically named for someone chained to a rock to be eaten by a sea monster?
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i'm now using the crooked penny as like a... it's actually as like a... a protest vote. like anytime you see me get a bad item and then double it, it's because i'm trying to banish it. i'm giving the lord the chance to say like, you know, this one's for you. and he's saying, no, i send it back. like an old man trying to send back superdaddy. the sea was angry that day, my friends. but yeah, it's still... i gotta remember.
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why out of all literature do you refer only to meditation and notes from underground? because i haven't read any brandon sanderson books. i'm gonna throw you a little thunderclap grenade real quick while we're here. you also read the stranger, that's true. mother died today or maybe it was yesterday. i did read the stranger. i did read the old man and the sea. i did read brave new world. i read the handmaid's tale. i read a couple. i've been known to do some reading.
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