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1  "Civilization's going to pieces," broke out Tom violently.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get.
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3  She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages.
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4  I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night.
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5  "Well, I'm going to tell you something about my life," he interrupted.
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6  Finally he got up and informed me in an uncertain voice that he was going home.
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7  "I'm going to have the McKees come up," she announced as we rose in the elevator.
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8  I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered.
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9  My dear," she cried, "I'm going to give you this dress as soon as I'm through with it.
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10  We got up, and she explained that we were going to find the host--I had never met him, she said, and it was making me uneasy.
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11  Evidently he lived in this vicinity for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane and was going to try it out in the morning.
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12  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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13  I'm going to make a big request of you today," he said, pocketing his souvenirs with satisfaction, "so I thought you ought to know something about me.
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14  At the request of Mr. Gatsby we are going to play for you Mr. Vladimir Tostoff's latest work which attracted so much attention at Carnegie Hall last May.
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15  Wild rumors were circulating about her--how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas.
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16  I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
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17  There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.
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