gatsby
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- "I'm inclined to reserve all judgment"
- "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn."
- "What foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."
- "The most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister difference between them"
- "One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax"
- "Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."
- "I've got a nice place here,' he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly"
- "They were both in white and their dress were rippling and fluttering"
- "I'm p-paralysed with happiness"
- "There was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared felt different to forget"
- "'Never heard of them' he remarked decisively"
- "Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face."
- "You must know Gatsby."
- "a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a- "
- "You make me feel uncivilised, Daisy"
- "'Civilisation is going to pieces,' broke out Tom violently"
- "Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair"
- "The last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face"
- "The telephone rang inside, startlingly,"
- "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
- "They oughtn't to let her run around the country this way."
- "Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens."
- "A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air."
- "The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic"
- "The fact he had one was insisted upon wherever he was"
- "We're getting off', he insisted. "I want you to meet my girl."
- "The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I has nothing better to do"
- "He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes"
- "The thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door"
- "'Get some chairs, why don't you, so somebody can sit down"
- "He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive"
- "'I want to get one of those dogs,' she said earnestly. "I want to get one for the apartment"
- "'I'm going to have the McKees come up' she announces as we rose in the elevator"
- "Mrs Wilson has changes her costume some time before, and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress"
- "Mrs Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain 'it's just a crazy old thing' she said 'I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like"
- "I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe"
- "Making a shirt deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"
- "men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars"
- "His Rolls-Royce became an omnibus"
- "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches further away from the sun"