EVENING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over.
2 It was six of us at the table and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening.
3 But evidently the sound of it pleased Gatsby for Tom remained "the polo player" for the rest of the evening.
4 The evening had made me light-headed and happy; I think I walked into a deep sleep as I entered my front door.
5 If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you.
6 They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
7 It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me.
8 I wanted to explain that I'd hunted for him early in the evening and to apologize for not having known him in the garden.
9 And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
10 Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness--it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer.
11 In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress.
12 It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek.
13 It was sharply different from the West where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
14 I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes--there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.
15 Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
16 Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o'clock of a December evening with a few Chicago friends already caught up into their own holiday gayeties to bid them a hasty goodbye.
17 Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.
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