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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known.
2 By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever.
3 I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before.
4 "We haven't met for many years," said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.
5 It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.
6 In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before.
7 But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.
8 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
9 I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for a moment I was sorry I'd ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.
10 Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
11 On the other hand no garage man who had seen him ever came forward--and perhaps he had an easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know.
12 I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
13 Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something whom we called Duke and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten.
14 Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
15 This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
16 She had caught a cold and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.