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1  Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women's voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  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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14  The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15  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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