LONG ISLAND in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I'd like to do more work on Long Island if I could get the entry.
2 "I've done some nice things out on Long Island," asserted Mr. McKee.
3 They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door.
4 The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
5 It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light.
6 But young men didn't--at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't--drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
7 His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years--even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man.
8 Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
9 Contemporary legends such as the "underground pipe-line to Canada" attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.
10 She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village--appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.