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1  I insisted on paying the check.
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2  "She didn't like it," he insisted.
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3  "They'll keep out of my way," she insisted.
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4  "I want to speak to Daisy alone," he insisted.
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5  "We won't be late if we start now," she insisted aloud.
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6  "I'd like to know who he is and what he does," insisted Tom.
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7  The fact that he had one was insisted upon wherever he was known.
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8  She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
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9  "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
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10  But it's so hot," insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, "And everything's so confused.
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11  "But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way.
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12  At this point Jordan and I tried to go but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain--as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.
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