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1  Well, this would interest you.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  People who do interesting things.
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3  His nostrils turned to me in an interested way.
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4  I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day.
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5  "At least they're more interesting than the people we know," she said with an effort.
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6  I hadn't the faintest idea what "this matter" was, but I was more annoyed than interested.
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7  Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich--nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.
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8  No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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9  I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
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10  Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.
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11  At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.
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