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Seemed Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I…
- She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
- They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;…
- I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way…
- He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come…
- Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
- If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at…
- The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it…
- They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of…
- Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
- What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable…
- For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places…
- His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four…
- The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
- Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted…
- What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
- It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.
- Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star…
- She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted…
- His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
- All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than…
- He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to…
- She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
- They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of…
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