PEOPLE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The large room was full of people.
2 "Well, other people are," she said lightly.
3 Everybody thinks so--the most advanced people.
4 All these people came to Gatsby's house in the summer.
5 I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west--all dead now.
6 My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations.
7 Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull.
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 There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked--and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
10 Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
11 Well, he wasn't always a butler; he used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people.
12 He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
13 They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
14 Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner.
15 A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and between the numbers people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.
16 Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know--though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.
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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