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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 We waited for her down the road and out of sight.
2 No, but the car passed me down the road, going faster'n forty.
3 Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
4 I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage.
5 As I tiptoed from the porch I heard my taxi feeling its way along the dark road toward the house.
6 Eckleburg's faded eyes came into sight down the road, I remembered Gatsby's caution about gasoline.
7 Instead of taking the short cut along the Sound we went down the road and entered by the big postern.
8 It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.
9 A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car.
10 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.
11 Generally he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road.
12 Thus far there was no difficulty in accounting for his time--there were boys who had seen a man "acting sort of crazy" and motorists at whom he stared oddly from the side of the road.
13 However, as they had left their cars blocking the road a harsh discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.
14 A man in a long duster had dismounted from the wreck and now stood in the middle of the road, looking from the car to the tire and from the tire to the observers in a pleasant, puzzled way.
15 The hard brown beetles kept thudding against the dull light and whenever Michaelis heard a car go tearing along the road outside it sounded to him like the car that hadn't stopped a few hours before.
16 The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust.