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1  All these people came to Gatsby's house in the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby's house that summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness--it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  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.
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9  From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  A massage and a wave and a collar for the dog and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother's grave that'll last all summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
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15  A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and between the numbers people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.
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16  Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.
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