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1  They can't get him, old sport.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "We can't move," they said together.
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3  "I can tell you right now," she answered.
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4  And if it runs out I can stop at a drug store.
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5  We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you.
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6  "I can't complain," answered Wilson unconvincingly.
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7  I was scared, I can tell you; I'd never seen a girl like that before.
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8  I can't seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race.
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9  I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there.
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10  Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge," I thought; "anything at all.
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11  No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
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12  "We can't argue about it here," Tom said impatiently as a truck gave out a cursing whistle behind us.
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13  She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.
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14  You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
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15  You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
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16  The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
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17  But I can still read the grey names and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
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