HERE in Classic Quotes

1  "I've got a nice place here," he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene--his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle" over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath--already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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