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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Gatsby walked over and stood beside her.
2 Gatsby's butler was suddenly standing beside us.
3 The sister Catherine sat down beside me on the couch.
4 In the music room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano.
5 The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the principal witness at the inquest.
6 But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.
7 Tom stopped beside the porch and looked up at the second floor where two windows bloomed with light among the vines.
8 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.
9 One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano and beside her stood a tall, red haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song.
10 When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before.
11 She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
12 Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.
13 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.
14 He didn't like to go into the garage because the work bench was stained where the body had been lying so he moved uncomfortably around the office--he knew every object in it before morning--and from time to time sat down beside Wilson trying to keep him more quiet.
15 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.
16 Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.
17 About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate--first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and, a little later, four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin.
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