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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Why they came east I don't know.
2 I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
3 When we came in she held us silent for a moment with a lifted hand.
4 It came from Myrtle who had overheard the question and it was violent and obscene.
5 They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light.
6 In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
7 She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.
8 Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
9 He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.
10 The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
11 When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm--and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
12 At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
13 The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
14 When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
15 When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
16 The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
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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