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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Gatz arrived from a town in Minnesota.
2 Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls.
3 That force took shape in the middle of spring with the arrival of Tom Buchanan.
4 It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
5 The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
6 A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars.
7 They arrived at twilight and as we strolled out among the sparkling hundreds Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat.
8 Some little boys had come up on the steps and were looking into the hall; when I told them who had arrived they went reluctantly away.
9 About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby's door and asked him if he had anything to say.
10 A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.
11 Just as Tom and Myrtle--after the first drink Mrs. Wilson and I called each other by our first names--reappeared, company commenced to arrive at the apartment door.
12 No telephone message arrived but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock--until long after there was any one to give it to if it came.
13 Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.
14 She must have broken her rule against drinking that night for when she arrived she was stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already gone to Flushing.
15 I was sure he'd start when he saw the newspapers, just as I was sure there'd be a wire from Daisy before noon--but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived, no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.
16 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.
17 The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath--already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
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