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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women.
2 I know very little about driving--next to nothing.
3 "He becomes very sentimental sometimes," explained Gatsby.
4 "We don't know each other very well, Nick," she said suddenly.
5 "You're very polite but I belong to another generation," he announced solemnly.
6 "Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy with an expression of unthoughtful sadness.
7 It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
8 In a basket, swung from his neck, cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.
9 His eyes, meanwhile, roved very slowly all around the room--he completed the arc by turning to inspect the people directly behind.
10 She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors."
11 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.
12 Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe.
13 My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season.
14 She had drunk a quantity of champagne and during the course of her song she had decided ineptly that everything was very very sad--she was not only singing, she was weeping too.
15 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.
16 The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.
17 She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage, and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body.
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