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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Have it your own way," she said.
2 My own face had now assumed a deep tropical burn.
3 His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own.
4 It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
5 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
6 I think that, except for my presence, he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table.
7 It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
8 To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
9 Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.
10 Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
11 You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
12 Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall.
13 The first supper--there would be another one after midnight--was now being served, and Jordan invited me to join her own party who were spread around a table on the other side of the garden.
14 We were in the same Senior Society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.
15 A reluctant elevator boy went for a box full of straw and some milk to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large hard dog biscuits--one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon.
16 My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires--all for eighty dollars a month.
17 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.
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