GREEN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 In the sunlight his face was green.
2 Now it was again a green light on a dock.
3 He felt the hot, green leather of the seat.
4 Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
5 Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color--he told the first policeman that it was light green.
6 On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea.
7 Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
8 Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
9 And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
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 And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes--a fresh, green breast of the new world.
12 It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.