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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden.
2 This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.
3 Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said.
4 It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
5 The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
6 To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
7 While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.
8 He smiled--and suddenly there seemed to be a pleasant significance in having been among the last to go, as if he had desired it all the time.
9 It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.
10 It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms--but apparently there were no such intentions in her head.
11 They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.
12 Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business.
13 I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
14 A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
15 I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.
16 Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.
17 Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
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