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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I was alone and it was almost two.
2 "I want to speak to Daisy alone," he insisted.
3 "I do leave it alone," affirmed the accused hollowly.
4 "Then you ought to leave it alone," countered Doctor Civet.
5 Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.
6 When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
7 Flushed with his impassioned gibberish he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
8 I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone before any words came through.
9 I tried to go then, but they wouldn't hear of it; perhaps my presence made them feel more satisfactorily alone.
10 Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby's party.
11 Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
12 He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
13 She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time.
14 Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.
15 The nature of Mr. Tostoff's composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.
16 Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees--he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
17 As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
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