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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Listen," said Tom, shaking him a little.
2 The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly.
3 Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born.
4 So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star.
5 I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
6 As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
7 I saw Jordan Baker and talked over and around what had happened to us together and what had happened afterward to me, and she lay perfectly still listening in a big chair.
8 Michaelis and this man reached her first but when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath.
9 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.