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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The younger of the two was a stranger to me.
2 The horses, needless to say, were not mentioned again.
3 The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged.
4 The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east.
5 The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
6 The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
7 The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
8 The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
9 The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
10 The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.
11 The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.
12 The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
13 The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
14 The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
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 The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
17 The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
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