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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 A new point of view occurred to me.
2 He pointed out every detail to me eagerly.
3 "Look in the drawer there," he said, pointing at the desk.
4 She pointed suddenly at me, and every one looked at me accusingly.
5 Gatsby's eyes followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.
6 Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
7 He was on the point of collapse so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat.
8 Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.
9 Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared at it for a moment and then looked upward as though he suspected that it had dropped from the sky.
10 Precisely at that point it vanished--and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.
11 At this point Jordan and I tried to go but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain--as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.
12 One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own.