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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 There was the smile again, but this time I held out against it.
2 The girl addressed was trying, unsuccessfully, to slump against my shoulder.
3 Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky.
4 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
5 Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.
6 We had luncheon in the dining-room, darkened, too, against the heat, and drank down nervous gayety with the cold ale.
7 The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
8 He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.
9 Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom.
10 Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.
11 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.
12 Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.
13 On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
14 I walked out the back way--just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before--and ran for a huge black knotted tree whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain.
15 His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy who was sitting frightened but graceful on the edge of a stiff chair.
16 With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate.
17 Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside--East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.
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