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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The letter reached Gatsby while he was still at Oxford.
2 Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around.
3 He reached in his pocket and a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon, fell into my palm.
4 He must have been tired and walking slowly for he didn't reach Gad's Hill until noon.
5 The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home.
6 The morning of the funeral I went up to New York to see Meyer Wolfshiem; I couldn't seem to reach him any other way.
7 He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
8 Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.
9 It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees.
10 Some words of this conversation must have reached Wilson swaying in the office door, for suddenly a new theme found voice among his gasping cries.
11 He reached up on tiptoes and peered over a circle of heads into the garage which was lit only by a yellow light in a swinging wire basket overhead.
12 At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers--a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round.
13 We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.
14 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.
15 The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.
16 Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.
17 Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
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