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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Then new arrivals disarranged the line and Jordan and I were pushed suddenly inside.
2 He sat down, miserably, as if I had pushed him, and simultaneously there was the sound of a motor turning into my lane.
3 Then he made a harsh sound in his throat and with a violent thrusting movement of his powerful arms pushed his way through.
4 I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound.
5 The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
6 The door that I pushed open on the advice of an elevator boy was marked "The Swastika Holding Company" and at first there didn't seem to be any one inside.
7 Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby's car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind.
8 We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.
9 Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago.
10 There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners--and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.