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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "I've got my hands full," I said.
2 We shook hands with him gravely and went back outdoors.
3 "Keep your hands off the lever," snapped the elevator boy.
4 As he shook hands and turned away his tragic nose was trembling.
5 "Don't ask me," said Owl Eyes, washing his hands of the whole matter.
6 They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
7 Jordan's party were calling impatiently to her from the porch but she lingered for a moment to shake hands.
8 Daisy took her face in her hands, as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.
9 She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.
10 I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands.
11 Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
12 A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.
13 Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.
14 Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
15 The airedale--undoubtedly there was an airedale concerned in it somewhere though its feet were startlingly white--changed hands and settled down into Mrs. Wilson's lap, where she fondled the weather-proof coat with rapture.
16 It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.
17 The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.
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