SCENE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene.
2 Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.
3 I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
4 I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.
5 And yet I couldn't believe that they would choose this occasion for a scene--especially for the rather harrowing scene that Gatsby had outlined in the garden.
6 However, as they had left their cars blocking the road a harsh discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.
7 The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
8 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.
9 When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene--his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle" over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.