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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Come along with me for a minute," I said.
2 We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
3 I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy.
4 I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink.
5 They got a circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before.'
6 I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
7 Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
8 There is always a halt there of at least a minute and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress.
9 I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler's voice calling a taxi.
10 She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors."
11 Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
12 Still later Michaelis had to ask the last stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer while he went back to his own place and made a pot of coffee.
13 He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
14 She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.
15 It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
16 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.
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