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1  People who do interesting things.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "These things excite me so," she whispered.
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3  I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.
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4  "Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself.
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5  I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get.
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6  She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  "I've done some nice things out on Long Island," asserted Mr. McKee.
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8  --and we've produced all the things that go to make civilization--oh, science and art and all that.
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9  He told her those things in a way that frightened her--that made it look as if I was some kind of cheap sharper.
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10  But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.
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11  It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
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12  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.
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13  When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  He knew women early and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15  They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
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16  The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
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17  Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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