MOON in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.
2 A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky.
3 I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.
4 A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden.
5 The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.
6 I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.
7 A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
8 And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes--a fresh, green breast of the new world.