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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 One thing's sure and nothing's surer.
2 I could see nothing sinister about him.
3 "Oh, it's nothing underhand," he assured me.
4 I know very little about driving--next to nothing.
5 I had nothing to do in the hall so I went into the room.
6 "I know nothing whatever about mechanics," he said decisively.
7 The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do.
8 I meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way.
9 I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
10 Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.
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 There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
13 Mr. Sloane didn't enter into the conversation but lounged back haughtily in his chair; the woman said nothing either--until unexpectedly, after two highballs, she became cordial.
14 The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing.
15 But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
16 Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes.
17 This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
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