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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She wouldn't let go of the letter.
2 Come here and let's have your name.
3 "Oh, let's have fun," she begged him.
4 "I'll let you have that car," said Tom.
5 Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born.
6 If there is anything I can do a little later let me know in a letter by Edgar.
7 I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
8 If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you.
9 Human sympathy has its limits and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
10 There was one thing to be done before I left, an awkward, unpleasant thing that perhaps had better have been let alone.
11 Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
12 She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
13 The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
14 Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.
15 I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.
16 I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself--that he was fully able to take care of her.
17 They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
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