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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 They've been living over that garage for eleven years.
2 I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.
3 My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations.
4 The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.
5 Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
6 It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me.
7 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
8 She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
9 As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.
10 He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
11 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.
12 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.
13 Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
14 We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
15 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.
16 My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires--all for eighty dollars a month.
17 Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
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