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1  Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich--nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before--and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  I suppose there'd be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust and some garrulous man telling over and over what had happened until it became less and less real even to him and he could tell it no longer and Myrtle Wilson's tragic achievement was forgotten.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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