Santiago quotes
A character in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
5 quotes spoken by or about Santiago, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Ernest Hemingway
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
Only I have no luck any more. 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.
I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.
But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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