WEEK in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She had lost in the finals the week before.
2 Read one improving book or magazine per week.
3 And he stayed three weeks, until Daddy told him he had to get out.
4 Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years.
5 She was effectually prevented, but she wasn't on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.
6 That was my fault--Gatsby had been called to the phone and I'd enjoyed these same people only two weeks before.
7 A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car.
8 It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
9 Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me.
10 He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.
11 He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car.
12 I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
13 For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone--mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt--but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.
14 My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen others, who never went into West Egg Village to be bribed by the tradesmen, but ordered moderate supplies over the telephone.