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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Well, I married him," said Myrtle, ambiguously.
2 She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time.
3 "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally.
4 "Hello, Wilson, old man," said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder.
5 Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that would do for an introduction.
6 She nodded and moved away from him just as George Wilson emerged with two chairs from his office door.
7 She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.
8 There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
9 Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.
10 Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
11 I followed him over a low white-washed railroad fence and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare.
12 He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
13 Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
14 We were in the same Senior Society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.
15 I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
16 But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone--he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.
17 If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
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