COOL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "You always look so cool," she repeated.
2 The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool.
3 So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
4 "They certainly look cool," he said, with visible tension.
5 "Those big movies around Fiftieth Street are cool," suggested Jordan.
6 Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky.
7 There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day.
8 The rain cooled about half-past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.
9 Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.
10 Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
11 Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod and they trotted quickly down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage just as Gatsby with hat and light overcoat in hand came out the front door.
12 Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
13 She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage, and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body.
14 The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back.
15 There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.