MONTH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months.
2 I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say.
3 It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.
4 An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota.
5 Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months' trip to the South Seas.
6 Crossing the porch where we had dined that June night three months before I came to a small rectangle of light which I guessed was the pantry window.
7 He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
8 His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before.
9 He announced that he had a way of finding out whom the yellow car belonged to, and then he blurted out that a couple of months ago his wife had come from the city with her face bruised and her nose swollen.
10 My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires--all for eighty dollars a month.
11 They had never been closer in their month of love nor communicated more profoundly one with another than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
12 I have forgotten their names--Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.