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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
2 "You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
3 I meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way.
4 And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.
5 "But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.
6 Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.
7 The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
8 I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
9 "Chester, I think you could do something with her," she broke out, but Mr. McKee only nodded in a bored way and turned his attention to Tom.
10 He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
11 We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter.
12 About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.
13 But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone--he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.
14 I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
15 Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
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 As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
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