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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 A dim background started to take shape behind him but at her next remark it faded away.
2 Some one who had been driving a little behind us confirmed this and the policeman turned away.
3 Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
4 "We can't argue about it here," Tom said impatiently as a truck gave out a cursing whistle behind us.
5 He left feeling that if he had searched harder he might have found her--that he was leaving her behind.
6 Human sympathy has its limits and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
7 His eyes, meanwhile, roved very slowly all around the room--he completed the arc by turning to inspect the people directly behind.
8 That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.
9 He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
10 Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby's car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind.
11 For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn't have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of "Wolfshiem's people," behind him in the dark shrubbery.
12 As a matter of fact he had no such facilities--he had no comfortable family standing behind him and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.
13 But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.