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I and mean
`` 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 think you're mean and hateful and stupid, and -- louder ''??
`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??
I mean, surely we've '' --
I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??
I mean: Is advertising honest??
Did, I mean ''.
`` I think I know what you mean, Brassnose '', I said.
`` No, I mean how'd you get her to do it ''??
I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.
Certainly not, I mean, no that isn't what I said ''!!
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
I take this to mean that the intelligent -- and therefore necessarily cynical??
I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
You see what I mean??
Here I do not mean catharsis, the discharge of emotion.
I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.
Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.
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 mean ''

I and lot
`` I seen a lot o' things in my time.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.
`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.
Or: `` I walk around the house a lot ''.
I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.
I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.
They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves `` Sanitary Bake Shops ''.
What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.
I wasn't far behind him when he entered the parking lot and hurried over to his car.
I circled the block and found he was in the parking lot of a high-class restaurant.
`` A lot of people are so peculiar that they don't like cats, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find good homes for kittens -- and, damn it, you know very well if I have them around long, impossible to give them away!!
Still, I wanted to get this over with, had a lot of paper work waiting in my own office.
and I knew they knew it, for I'd told them a lot of it.
`` We'll let him do a lot of running this week, but I don't know if he'll be able to play ''.
It was a real stimulant to a lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2-score-year milestone.
`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.
Actually, there was a lot of force in him, which is why I kept on in that class instead of quitting after a week.
Via was in the parking lot when I went outside.
`` Somehow I imagine that as you grew up you were alone a lot.
I had a lot to be thankful for.

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