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I and am
`` I am.
Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??
I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.
And Hank Maguire added, `` So am I, Tom ''.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.
I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
I am not a philosopher.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

I and for
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
I returned to the hall, despite my dislike for the clerk.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
I did it for the valley.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

I and .
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
It's not much of a meal, but it's what I eat ''.
`` Mr. Morgan, it's the best-looking food I ever saw ''.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
`` I get up early.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
I believed him.
I didn't understand why, Clay.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
I tried.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
There's someone there I have to see.

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