BRIGHTNESS in Classic Quotes

1  Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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