ACCEPTANCE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Current Search - acceptance in The Great Gatsby
1 I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began.
2 They were here--and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.
3 I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York.
4 Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.
5 But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
6 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.
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