TOWN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He must know what a small town is.
2 Gatz arrived from a town in Minnesota.
3 "We've got enough to get us to town," said Tom.
4 Well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town.
5 "I don't see the idea of going to town," broke out Tom savagely.
6 All right," broke in Tom quickly, "I'm perfectly willing to go to town.
7 Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
8 After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all.
9 That's my middle west--not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.
10 The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
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.