KNOWING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He says he knows the car that did it.
2 But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.
3 Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.
4 Then the same half knowing, half bewildered look came back into his faded eyes.
5 "I took her to the window--" With an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it, "--and I said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing.'"
6 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.
7 When the "Jazz History of the World" was over girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men's arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls--but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.