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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 You ought to have a church, George, for times like this.
2 The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent.
3 The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour.
4 I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit.
5 She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
6 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.
7 It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
8 Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight.
9 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
10 There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
11 But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.
12 The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.