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1  It'll show you how I've gotten to feel about--things.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
2  I don't know how he knew about the funeral or even his name.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
3  I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  He knew that Daisy was extraordinary but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a "nice" girl could be.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  When I was a young man it was different--if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
8  He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  I can't speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn't know Daisy then--and I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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