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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged.
2 "We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.
3 As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.
4 I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
5 Daisy took her face in her hands, as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.
6 There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
7 "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.
8 It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
9 All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.
10 They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
11 She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
12 She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.
13 She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.
14 I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
15 I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.
16 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.
17 Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.
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