LIGHT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Well, other people are," she said lightly.
2 One night I did hear a material car there and saw its lights stop at his front steps.
3 I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
4 The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars.
5 Human sympathy has its limits and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
6 Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness.
7 All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York.
8 Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
9 The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
10 Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps where "Three o'Clock in the Morning," a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door.
11 At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
12 Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside.
13 It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night--and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.
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 Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.
16 When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air.
17 That's my middle west--not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.
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