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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I looked at my watch and stood up.
2 As I watched him he adjusted himself a little, visibly.
3 It was nine o'clock--almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten.
4 He watched while the two men standing closest glanced at each other and went unwillingly into the room.
5 The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour.
6 Almost the last thing I remember was standing with Daisy and watching the moving picture director and his Star.
7 Suddenly he looked at his watch, jumped up and hurried from the room leaving me with Mr. Wolfshiem at the table.
8 Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh; a tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air.
9 It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek.
10 At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
11 The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.