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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed.
2 The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.
3 She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls.
4 Michaelis advised him to go to bed but Wilson refused, saying that he'd miss a lot of business if he did.
5 "We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.
6 He fumbled at the embroidered coverlet, trying to take it from the bed, and lay down stiffly--was instantly asleep.
7 I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands.
8 I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a monkey.
9 For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.
10 I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
11 Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby's drive and immediately I jumped out of bed and began to dress--I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late.
12 Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.