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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Jimmy always liked it better down East.
2 He rose up to his position in the East.
3 Clarence Endive was from East Egg, as I remember.
4 Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
5 Tom deferred that much to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who might be on the train.
6 After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction.
7 And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
8 Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
9 "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.
10 I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York.
11 Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business.
12 It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.
13 From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.
14 Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
15 When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
16 One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own.
17 Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old--even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
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