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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "I do leave it alone," affirmed the accused hollowly.
2 "Then you ought to leave it alone," countered Doctor Civet.
3 He couldn't possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do.
4 She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby--nothing.
5 I wasn't worth a decent stroke of work but it was more than that--I didn't want to leave Gatsby.
6 Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.
7 He left feeling that if he had searched harder he might have found her--that he was leaving her behind.
8 Probably it had been tactful to leave Daisy's house, but the act annoyed me and her next remark made me rigid.
9 Suddenly he looked at his watch, jumped up and hurried from the room leaving me with Mr. Wolfshiem at the table.
10 But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.
11 He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave and when I sent down word that we weren't in he tried to force his way upstairs.
12 She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
13 His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
14 We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.
15 The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
16 Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby's car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind.
17 For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened--then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
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