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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.
2 I meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way.
3 "But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.
4 I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
5 I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon and his determination to have my company bordered on violence.
6 I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
7 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.
8 It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
9 The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
10 In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
11 His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
12 I went up to New York with Tom on the train one afternoon and when we stopped by the ashheaps he jumped to his feet and taking hold of my elbow literally forced me from the car.
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 The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
15 A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
16 The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.
17 Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
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