`` 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.

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 ''

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

`` I want to tell you something Thomas DeMontez Lord.

`` That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.

Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

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 really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.

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.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

`` I know something about Eromonga.

I murmured something about a possible difference between New Mexico's history and Mississippi's.

But I think that something more than this is involved.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.

with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --

`` I couldn't agree with you more ''.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.

I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.

Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.