TALKED in Classic Quotes

1  We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "I talked with Miss Baker," I said after a moment.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

3  I can't seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  We talked for a moment about some wet, grey little villages in France.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  We talked like that for a while and then abruptly we weren't talking any longer.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  But I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with him an hour.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  I couldn't have talked to her across a tea-table that day if I never talked to her again in this world.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

12  All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, "Why--ye-es" with very grave, hesitant faces.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  Each of us said over and over that it was a "crazy idea"--we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

14  Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

15  I saw Jordan Baker and talked over and around what had happened to us together and what had happened afterward to me, and she lay perfectly still listening in a big chair.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

16  I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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17  Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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