FOR A WHILE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "You were crazy about him for a while," said Catherine.
2 We talked like that for a while and then abruptly we weren't talking any longer.
3 We were all irritable now with the fading ale and, aware of it, we drove for a while in silence.
4 I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too.
5 The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
6 Up in the city I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock, then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.
7 The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.
8 Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.