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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Never heard of them," he remarked decisively.
2 "I've just heard the most amazing thing," she whispered.
3 Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone.
4 Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years.
5 "But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.
6 I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
7 "I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assured us positively.
8 I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago.
9 It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it.
10 Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
11 As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
12 Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note.
13 I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound.
14 When he came outside again a little after seven he was reminded of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson's voice, loud and scolding, downstairs in the garage.
15 It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
16 Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.
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