LITTLE in Classic Quotes

1  I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Daisy was not a Catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  "Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich--nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  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.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15  At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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16  This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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