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American Lit Caparison > Quotations Gatsby > Flashcards

Quotations Gatsby Flashcards

1
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The orchestra

A

Had arrived

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2
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I like large parties

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They are so intimate

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3
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Sometimes they came and went without

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Knowing Gatsby at all

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4
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I was on my way to get roaring

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Drunk

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5
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A tray of cocktails

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Floated at us through the twilight

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6
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A great number of single girls dancing

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Individualistically

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7
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Champagne was served in glasses bigger than

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Finger bowls

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8
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Most of the remaining women were having fights with

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Men said to be their husbands

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9
Q

Wives were lifted

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Kicking into the night

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10
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He was never quite still

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There was always a tapping foot somewhere

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11
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I didn’t want you to think I was just

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Somebody

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12
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People were not invited

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They just went there

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13
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Cocktails permeate the garden outside

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Until the air is alive with chatter and laughter

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14
Q

Laughter is

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Easier by the minute

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15
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Agonisingly aware of the

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Easy money in the vicinity

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16
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I was on my way to get roaring drunk

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From sheer embarrassment

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17
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She responded

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Absently

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18
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Her remark was addressed to

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The premature moon

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19
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The premature moon, produced like supper, no doubt,

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Out of a caterer’s basket

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20
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I never care what I do

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So I always have a good time

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21
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The first supper,

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There would be another after midnight

22
Q

A great number of girls dancing

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Individualistically

23
Q

Champagne was served on glasses

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Bigger than finger bowls

24
Q

Most of the remaining women

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We’re now having fights with men said to be their husbands

25
Q

Whenever he sees I’m having a nice time

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He wants to go home

26
Q

You must see

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Faces of many people you have heard about

27
Q

They arrived at midnight and strolled

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Out among the sparkling hundreds

28
Q

She wasn’t having a

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Good time

29
Q

Gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the

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Hot struggles of the poor’

30
Q

Gatsby couldn’t afford ‘regular clothes’

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He had to continue wearing his army uniform

31
Q

The colossal vitality of

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His illusion

32
Q

It had grown beyond her,

A

Beyond anything

33
Q

Men and girls came and went like

A

Moths

34
Q

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion

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Decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way

35
Q

I carry on a little business on the side

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A sort of sideline, you understand

36
Q

You dont make much

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Money do you?

37
Q

It happens to be a

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Rather confidential thing

38
Q

Is this absolutely where

A

You live my dearest one?

39
Q

Standing in a puddle of water staring

A

Tragically into my eyes

40
Q

His lips parted with

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An abortive attempt at a laugh

41
Q

I want you and

A

Daisy to come over to my house

42
Q

It took me just three years to

A

Earn the money that bought it

43
Q

Marie Antoinette music rooms and

A

Restoration salons

44
Q

I think he revalued everything in his house

A

According to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes

45
Q

The colossal significance of that

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Light had now vanished forever

46
Q

‘I’d like get one of those pink clouds and put you

A

In it and push you around’

47
Q

It was the hour of profound

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Human change and the excitement was generating in the air

48
Q

The colossal vitality of

A

His illusion

49
Q

His parents were shiftless

A

And unsuccessful farm people

50
Q

I reached the point of believing

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Everything and nothing about him

51
Q

Women

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Run around too much these days

52
Q

I had grown to accept west egg as a world complete in itself

A

With its own standards and own great figures

American Lit Caparison (8 decks)

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