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1  We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
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4  It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
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5  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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6  Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.
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