FRIEND in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Filled with friends gone now forever.
2 "You're morbid, George," said his friend.
3 "She's much obliged, I'm sure," said another friend, without gratitude.
4 I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby's grave.
5 When I said you were a particular friend of Tom's he started to abandon the whole idea.
6 When I was a young man it was different--if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end.
7 This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife.
8 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.
9 But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
10 You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
11 A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms, followed by two carriages with drawn blinds and by more cheerful carriages for friends.
12 The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday.
13 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.
14 The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.