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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 For half a minute there wasn't a sound.
2 But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
3 By six o'clock Michaelis was worn out and grateful for the sound of a car stopping outside.
4 Suddenly with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
5 I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone before any words came through.
6 But evidently the sound of it pleased Gatsby for Tom remained "the polo player" for the rest of the evening.
7 For some time confused and intriguing sounds had issued from a long many-windowed room which overhung the terrace.
8 He sat down, miserably, as if I had pushed him, and simultaneously there was the sound of a motor turning into my lane.
9 Then he made a harsh sound in his throat and with a violent thrusting movement of his powerful arms pushed his way through.
10 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.
11 As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground.
12 It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees.
13 Through the hall of the Buchanans' house blew a faint wind, carrying the sound of the telephone bell out to Gatsby and me as we waited at the door.
14 A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden.
15 As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
16 The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
17 The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
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