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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He jumped off to give me a better view.
2 They got a circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before.'
3 My dear," she cried, "I'm going to give you this dress as soon as I'm through with it.
4 "Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete.
5 That night an obviously frightened person called up and demanded to know who I was before he would give his name.
6 The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
7 The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
8 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.
9 No telephone message arrived but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock--until long after there was any one to give it to if it came.
10 I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
11 And if you think I didn't have my share of suffering--look here, when I went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard I sat down and cried like a baby.
12 But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
13 Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.