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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I hadn't seen him around, and I was rather worried.
2 I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning.
3 "Oh, hello, old sport," he said, as if he hadn't seen me for years.
4 I was scared, I can tell you; I'd never seen a girl like that before.
5 It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.
6 I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot--I had never seen him dance before.
7 Michaelis had seen this too but it hadn't occurred to him that there was any special significance in it.
8 I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband.
9 She must have seen something of this in my expression for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house.
10 On the other hand no garage man who had seen him ever came forward--and perhaps he had an easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know.
11 When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before.
12 The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
13 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
14 Then out into the spring fields, where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute with people in it who might once have seen the pale magic of her face along the casual street.
15 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.
16 She showed a surprising amount of character about it too--looked at the coroner with determined eyes under that corrected brow of hers and swore that her sister had never seen Gatsby, that her sister was completely happy with her husband, that her sister had been into no mischief whatever.
17 Her expression was curiously familiar--it was an expression I had often seen on women's faces but on Myrtle Wilson's face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.
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