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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 "All right, old sport," called Gatsby.
3 "It's just a crazy old thing," she said.
4 Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
5 "Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly.
6 "If you want anything just ask for it, old sport," he urged me.
7 Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.
8 "Hello, Wilson, old man," said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder.
9 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.
10 There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
11 You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
12 Looked at from a distance however the hen resolved itself into a bonnet and the countenance of a stout old lady beamed down into the room.
13 Several old copies of "Town Tattle" lay on the table together with a copy of "Simon Called Peter" and some of the small scandal magazines of Broadway.
14 After that, if the night was mellow I strolled down Madison Avenue past the old Murray Hill Hotel and over Thirty-third Street to the Pennsylvania Station.
15 Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
16 I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
17 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.
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