BEDROOMS in Classic Quotes

1  The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  His bedroom was the simplest room of all--except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a grey, florid man with a hard empty face--the pioneer debauchee who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths--intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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