THEY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Why they came east I don't know.
2 I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard.
3 Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's.
4 I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles.
5 Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged.
6 They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door.
7 They were here--and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.
8 She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
9 Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
10 All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.
11 They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
12 Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks.
13 They are not perfect ovals--like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end--but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
14 When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
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 When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene--his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle" over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
17 Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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