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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 If he'd of lived he'd of been a great man.
2 "You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously.
3 I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there.
4 He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.
5 They carried him into my house," appended Jordan, "because we lived just two doors from the church.
6 His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half fierce, half lazy work of the bracing days.
7 The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath.
8 "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
9 But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
10 She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.
11 Evidently he lived in this vicinity for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane and was going to try it out in the morning.
12 But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there--it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him.
13 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.
14 I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
15 The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.
16 I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.
17 Contemporary legends such as the "underground pipe-line to Canada" attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.
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