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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He reads deep books with long words in them.
2 Read one improving book or magazine per week.
3 Meyer Wolfshiem's name wasn't in the phone book.
4 Look here, this is a book he had when he was a boy.
5 Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.
6 "I come across this book by accident," said the old man.
7 And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides.
8 "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
9 He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me.
10 Next to him stood a motorcycle policeman taking down names with much sweat and correction in a little book.
11 As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.
12 It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.
13 The telephone book slipped from its nail and splashed to the floor, whereupon Jordan whispered "Excuse me"--but this time no one laughed.
14 He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
15 Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.