QUALITY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He was worried now--there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters.
2 The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute.
3 This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness.
4 It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
5 About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed--he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car.
6 Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness--it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer.
7 The fact was infinitely astonishing to him--and I recognized first the unusual quality of wonder and then the man--it was the late patron of Gatsby's library.
8 As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness.
9 The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
10 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.
11 Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old--even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.