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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 They stood side by side examining it.
2 Gatsby walked over and stood beside her.
3 Daisy went to the mirror and stood with her back to us, fixing her hair.
4 Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.
5 They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light.
6 Gatsby stood in the center of the crimson carpet and gazed around with fascinated eyes.
7 They went upstairs to get ready while we three men stood there shuffling the hot pebbles with our feet.
8 I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
9 Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.
10 One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano and beside her stood a tall, red haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song.
11 Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.
12 Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.
13 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.
14 A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
15 I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.
16 I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
17 After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers--but outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.
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