SOMETHING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "You McKees have something to drink," he said.
2 I forgot to ask you something, and it's important.
3 I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles.
4 "There's something funny about a fellow that'll do a thing like that," said the other girl eagerly.
5 "We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.
6 As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.
7 There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
8 "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more.
9 I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
10 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.
11 "Chester, I think you could do something with her," she broke out, but Mr. McKee only nodded in a bored way and turned his attention to Tom.
12 She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.
13 She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.
14 I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
15 At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.
16 If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
17 The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
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