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I know it from personal experience that in order to reach the top, a person is thinking solely of the goal, he has to forget everything else in this world, toss aside everything unnecessary – or else you are doomed.
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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.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
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`` I know you ain't ''!!
I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
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`` How would I know??
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At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
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.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.
I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
I know this from my talks with him ''.
I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.
The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.
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