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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She used to be able to understand.
2 "I used to know a Bill Biloxi from Memphis," I remarked.
3 I used to ride in the army but I've never bought a horse.
4 I got him to join up in the American Legion and he used to stand high there.
5 He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.
6 Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
7 Well, he wasn't always a butler; he used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people.
8 She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight.
9 However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor and I should have known better than to call him.
10 Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression "mad man" as he bent over Wilson's body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.
11 Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes.