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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Well, I'm going to tell you something about my life," he interrupted.
2 "And Daisy ought to have something in her life," murmured Jordan to me.
3 In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
4 It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
5 I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life.
6 I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
7 I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life.
8 It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
9 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.
10 His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
11 I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
12 And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
13 I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun.
14 I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a grey, florid man with a hard empty face--the pioneer debauchee who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
15 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.
16 Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees--he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
17 At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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