EXPRESSIVE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
2 "Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy with an expression of unthoughtful sadness.
3 But evidently he was not addressing me for he dropped my hand and covered Gatsby with his expressive nose.
4 I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.
5 I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
6 Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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