APPEARANCE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Tom appeared from his oblivion as we were sitting down to supper together.
2 Rather ashamed that on my first appearance I had stayed so late, I joined the last of Gatsby's guests who were clustered around him.
3 I saw right away he was a fine appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was an Oggsford I knew I could use him good.
4 Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.
5 A maid began opening the upper windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from a large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden.
6 But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.
7 I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
8 It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.
9 The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.