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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Back out," he suggested after a moment.
2 "She's a nice girl," said Tom after a moment.
3 "I should change the light," he said after a moment.
4 And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.
5 I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.
6 "Let's get out," whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half hour.
7 And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.
8 This isn't just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
9 I waited but she didn't say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
10 Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
11 Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
12 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.
13 They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
14 Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks.
15 The first supper--there would be another one after midnight--was now being served, and Jordan invited me to join her own party who were spread around a table on the other side of the garden.
16 I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun.
17 Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know--though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.
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