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 Current Search - matters in The Great Gatsby
1  "As if it mattered to you," she said.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  It's a bona fide piece of printed matter.
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3  Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
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4  As a matter of fact you needn't bother to ascertain.
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5  He spoke as if Daisy's reaction was the only thing that mattered.
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6  "Don't ask me," said Owl Eyes, washing his hands of the whole matter.
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7  I hadn't the faintest idea what "this matter" was, but I was more annoyed than interested.
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8  When I was a young man it was different--if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end.
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9  It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.
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10  Well, the fact is--the truth of the matter is that I'm staying with some people up here in Greenwich and they rather expect me to be with them tomorrow.
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11  As a matter of fact he had no such facilities--he had no comfortable family standing behind him and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.
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12  His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
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