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I and knew
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.
How far I knew will shortly become apparent.
Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!
), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.
I knew this knowledge to be corrupting at the time I acquired it ; ;
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

I and both
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
`` I guess we both felt it ''.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
You actually hate me -- and we both know it -- because I killed that filthy snake.
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.
I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.
Luckily both women knew my position and if anyone suffered in their opinion it was not I ''.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
I could never forget the gaiety with which, when he was both blind and deaf, he let me lead him around his rooms to look at some of the pictures ; ;
And this means, I suppose, that almost invariably age reveals itself by easily recognizable signs engraved on both the body and the mind.
I would ask, `` Why not do both ''??
Mickie had a pleasant glow as he said, `` You see, both of them, I mean the President and Jeff Lawrence, are romantics.
`` Some day '', I told Eileen, `` that guy will kill us both ''.
I always felt the memory was present in both of them, stirring in their chests like a laugh or a growl, as eager as an animal to be out.
In my short period here I believe that at no time has he been otherwise than the most popular man on both sides of the aisle.
Yesterday, I had the privilege of reading a thoughtful article in the U.S. News & World Report of May 8 which discussed this type of action in more detail, including both its advantages and its disadvantages.
After selecting a sheet and inspecting it for flaws ( even the best sometimes has foreign ' nubbins ' on its surface ), I sponge it thoroughly on both sides with clean, cold water.
Between 1935 and 1939 Letch and I made ten films together, each less successful, both artistically and commercially, than the one before it.
Thus to has light stress both in that was the conclusion that I came to and in that was the conclusion I came to.

I and these
I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
`` I'm gonna drop these into Blue Throat's lap '', he announced, `` and I'd like every gun to be firing into that barn while I get near enough to toss 'em through the window ''.
`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.
It is these other differences between North and South -- other, that is, than those which concern discrimination or social welfare -- which I chiefly discuss herein.
I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.
In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.
But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.
I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.
Moreover, I have directed that steps be taken to program on a longer range basis our military assistance to these allies.
I think you are being unfair to take these things up now.
I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.
Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.
I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.
I think these attributes cluster, but I have no evidence.
I want you to be grandfather to these orphaned poems, dear father-brother, now I am gone ; ;
but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

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