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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Bles-sed pre-cious," she crooned, holding out her arms.
2 Suddenly he saw me and walked back holding out his hand.
3 In a moment Meyer Wolfshiem stood solemnly in the doorway, holding out both hands.
4 His hand took hold of hers and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion.
5 You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
6 I went up to New York with Tom on the train one afternoon and when we stopped by the ashheaps he jumped to his feet and taking hold of my elbow literally forced me from the car.
7 I picked it up with a weary bend and handed it back to her, holding it at arm's length and by the extreme tip of the corners to indicate that I had no designs upon it--but every one near by, including the woman, suspected me just the same.
8 At first I couldn't find the source of the high, groaning words that echoed clamorously through the bare garage--then I saw Wilson standing on the raised threshold of his office, swaying back and forth and holding to the doorposts with both hands.
9 There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners--and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.