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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "It came off," some one explained.
2 He jumped off to give me a better view.
3 "Keep your hands off the lever," snapped the elevator boy.
4 His voice faded off and Tom glanced impatiently around the garage.
5 Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.
6 She was hurrying off as she talked--her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door.
7 A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car.
8 I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
9 The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
10 Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months' trip to the South Seas.
11 At least a dozen men, some of them little better off than he was, explained to him that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond.
12 A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.
13 I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
14 The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
15 He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn't keep my eyes off him but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head.
16 Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.
17 As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
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