LIVES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 If he'd of lived he'd of been a great man.
2 They've been living over that garage for eleven years.
3 To my overwhelming surprise the living room was deserted.
4 They carried him into my house," appended Jordan, "because we lived just two doors from the church.
5 His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half fierce, half lazy work of the bracing days.
6 The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath.
7 But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
8 She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.
9 Evidently he lived in this vicinity for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane and was going to try it out in the morning.
10 Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note.
11 But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there--it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him.
12 With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire and disappeared into the living room.
13 I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.
14 I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
15 The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.
16 When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
17 I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.
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