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I and don't
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` 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 ''.
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 don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;
I don't want to leave it ''.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.
`` I don't know, Tom.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

I and blame
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
Personally, I don't blame him for giving up the dive, much as I regret losing the story ''.
And can't say I blame you '', said Angie thoughtfully.
In a way, I blame myself.
And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane.
I preferred to excuse myself and blame this unknown thing which was in me but was not part of me.
Then, not only knowing that, I would have to know who is at the crux of all of the problems in the world and then blame Jewish people, which is not correct.
" However, Sherman himself stated that " f I had made up my mind to burn Columbia I would have burnt it with no more feeling than I would a common prairie dog village ; but I did not do it ..." Sherman's official report on the burning placed the blame on Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton III, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets.
" Though p ' r ' aps I may incur thy blame " ( Phyllis, Lord Mountararat, Lord Tolloller, and Private Willis )
" " I don't feel we've bastardised the way we were ", Collins remarked in an interview with Music Express: " on a generous day I'll blame me for the change, but I just think it is us growing up, listening to different things ".
I was showered with blame in dozens of editorials and columns from primarily conservative newspapers all over the country heartily agreeing with Peale's assertions.
She later told the Avalanche-Journal: " In a way, I blame myself.
And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane.
* In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

I and girl
`` But I still think Penny's an awful nice girl, Russ '' --
One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.
but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.
She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.
I got a girl in trouble and we had to get married.
`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.
`` I'd give anything if I could have found a girl like you ''.
It would be the first time I had ever been completely alone with a girl I loved.
I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??
At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.
`` I see the girl but I don't see the car with slacks on ''.
`` I like the tradition '', a girl said.
As for that other girl, let's just say that I never want to see her again.
Now, riding this hospital bus, feeling isolated and utterly alone, I knew that she was genuine and unique, quite unlike any girl I had known before.
The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.
I had a bowl of decent chowder, phoned the Doc and he said he'd leave the death statements with his girl -- in a half hour.
In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.

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