WORDS in Classic Quotes
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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 reads deep books with long words in them.
3 The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
4 Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
5 Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
6 I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone before any words came through.
7 He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.
8 They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.
9 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.
10 He raised his hand to stop my words, looked at me with unforgettable reproach and opening the door cautiously went back into the other room.
11 Some words of this conversation must have reached Wilson swaying in the office door, for suddenly a new theme found voice among his gasping cries.
12 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.
13 She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
14 Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.
15 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.
16 Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
17 At first I couldn't find the source of the high, groaning words that echoed clamorously through the bare garage--then I saw Wilson standing on the raised threshold of his office, swaying back and forth and holding to the doorposts with both hands.
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