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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Come over often, Nick, and I'll sort of--oh--fling you together.
2 There's a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line.
3 But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
4 They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
5 They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
6 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
7 And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
8 Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.
9 I followed him over a low white-washed railroad fence and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare.
10 She had changed her dress to a brown figured muslin which stretched tight over her rather wide hips as Tom helped her to the platform in New York.
11 All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.
12 And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
13 I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
14 Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
15 A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
16 This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
17 The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.
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