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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 But she didn't say another word.
2 He stared at me without a word and I knew I had guessed right about those missing hours.
3 Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
4 They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts even from our pity.
5 With scarcely a word said, four of us, the chauffeur, butler, gardener and I, hurried down to the pool.
6 He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.
7 He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave and when I sent down word that we weren't in he tried to force his way upstairs.
8 The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
9 At two o'clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if any one phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool.
10 He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
11 Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again.
12 On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
13 When Michaelis's testimony at the inquest brought to light Wilson's suspicions of his wife I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade--but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.
14 But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.