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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "I told you I went there," said Gatsby.
2 "It's an old clock," I told them idiotically.
3 "I told you what's been going on," said Gatsby.
4 She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
5 She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.
6 And he stayed three weeks, until Daddy told him he had to get out.
7 Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
8 My dear," she told her sister in a high mincing shout, "most of these fellas will cheat you every time.
9 She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
10 I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
11 Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.
12 But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
13 Evidently he lived in this vicinity for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane and was going to try it out in the morning.
14 He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.
15 When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm--and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
16 He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true.
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