VAGUE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Looks very good," he remarked vaguely.
2 Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged.
3 Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.
4 But he would be uneasy anyhow until he had given them something, realizing in a vague way that that was all they came for.
5 He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.
6 That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.
7 Daisy looked at Tom frowning and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby's face.
8 He was employed in a vague personal capacity--while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.
9 At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.