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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I thought you knew, old sport.
2 I knew right away I made a mistake.
3 Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged.
4 Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man.
5 "I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assured us positively.
6 At first I was flattered to go places with her because she was a golf champion and every one knew her name.
7 They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
8 And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
9 His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
10 When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm--and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
11 But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
12 Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks.
13 From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.
14 I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names and lunched with them in dark crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee.
15 I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
16 I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.
17 The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.
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