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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It was all very careless and confused.
2 But it's so hot," insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, "And everything's so confused.
3 Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself.
4 For some time confused and intriguing sounds had issued from a long many-windowed room which overhung the terrace.
5 There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic.
6 Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.
7 Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich--nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.
8 Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women's voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.
9 The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
10 It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
11 Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.
12 His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
13 However, as they had left their cars blocking the road a harsh discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.
14 They are not perfect ovals--like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end--but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
15 At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.