TELL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "I can tell you right now," she answered.
2 We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you.
3 Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born.
4 "I've got something to tell you, old sport,----" began Gatsby.
5 "I'll tell you a family secret," she whispered enthusiastically.
6 I was scared, I can tell you; I'd never seen a girl like that before.
7 "Well, I'm going to tell you something about my life," he interrupted.
8 And I don't understand why you won't come out frankly and tell me what you want.
9 Perhaps I am, but I have a--almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do.
10 I disliked him so much by this time that I didn't find it necessary to tell him he was wrong.
11 Now I want to go back a little and tell what happened at the garage after we left there the night before.
12 When Jordan Baker had finished telling all this we had left the Plaza for half an hour and were driving in a Victoria through Central Park.
13 This reminded me that I had forgotten to tell my Finn to come back so I drove into West Egg Village to search for her among soggy white-washed alleys and to buy some cups and lemons and flowers.
14 Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby's drive and immediately I jumped out of bed and began to dress--I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late.
15 I suppose there'd be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust and some garrulous man telling over and over what had happened until it became less and less real even to him and he could tell it no longer and Myrtle Wilson's tragic achievement was forgotten.
16 I suppose there'd be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust and some garrulous man telling over and over what had happened until it became less and less real even to him and he could tell it no longer and Myrtle Wilson's tragic achievement was forgotten.