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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "My God, I believe the man's coming," said Tom.
2 "Don't believe everything you hear, Nick," he advised me.
3 I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before.
4 He looked at me sideways--and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying.
5 I think we all believed for a moment that it had smashed in pieces on the floor.
6 Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
7 He looked out the window at it, but judging from his expression I don't believe he saw a thing.
8 I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared.
9 He believed that Mrs. Wilson had been running away from her husband, rather than trying to stop any particular car.
10 I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.
11 I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound.
12 But young men didn't--at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't--drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
13 And yet I couldn't believe that they would choose this occasion for a scene--especially for the rather harrowing scene that Gatsby had outlined in the garden.
14 It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
15 It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
16 I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself--that he was fully able to take care of her.
17 This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
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