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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I just got here a minute ago, from New York.
2 He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.
3 Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years.
4 I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago.
5 His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.
6 One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago.
7 His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.
8 Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.
9 I can't speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn't know Daisy then--and I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door.
10 Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago.
11 He announced that he had a way of finding out whom the yellow car belonged to, and then he blurted out that a couple of months ago his wife had come from the city with her face bruised and her nose swollen.
12 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.