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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I know you didn't mean to but you did do it.
2 I can't seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race.
3 I meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way.
4 I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago.
5 "You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret.
6 "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
7 I waited but she didn't say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
8 Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
9 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.
10 I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office.
11 She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
12 He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
13 I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.
14 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.
15 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.
16 The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
17 The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
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