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1  He looked at me keenly, realizing that Jordan and I must have known all along.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  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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4  I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  But he would be uneasy anyhow until he had given them something, realizing in a vague way that that was all they came for.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  He was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years--even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't the appropriate reply.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing--and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  Her expression was curiously familiar--it was an expression I had often seen on women's faces but on Myrtle Wilson's face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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