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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He touched his head impressively and I nodded.
2 His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
3 The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.
4 Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
5 "You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret.
6 Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me.
7 So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.
8 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.
9 But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
10 It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
11 There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.