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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I knew right away I made a mistake.
2 She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.
3 "She really ought to get away from him," resumed Catherine to me.
4 She nodded and moved away from him just as George Wilson emerged with two chairs from his office door.
5 They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
6 I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
7 Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich--nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.
8 People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
9 Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
10 The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
11 Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
12 About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.
13 I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
14 Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.
15 His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
16 If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
17 The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.
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