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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 At this inquiry she sat up and opened her eyes.
2 He opened the door but she moved out from the circle of his arm.
3 "But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.
4 As I waited for my hat in the hall the door of the library opened and Jordan Baker and Gatsby came out together.
5 He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.
6 The crowd--it was now a crowd--stepped back involuntarily and when the door had opened wide there was a ghostly pause.
7 An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in.
8 He raised his hand to stop my words, looked at me with unforgettable reproach and opening the door cautiously went back into the other room.
9 His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.
10 The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o'clock, opening the windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park.
11 It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light.
12 A maid began opening the upper windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from a large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden.
13 Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by.
14 In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
15 I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
16 Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
17 He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride.
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