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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 we
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??
Haven't we haven't I seen you.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
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 ''.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.

I and all
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.
`` That's all I ask ''!!
If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
It's all I ask, Stevens ''.
`` 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.
Maybe I would beat old Herry to Siberia after all.
`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
I never wear anything at all.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
veal cutlets: `` Oh, I couldn't possibly eat all this ''!!
As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.
`` I guess he spent the morning getting himself all organized, then headed for home.
`` Nope, just you, all the time -- sometimes I think it's the only way I'll ever get a decent partner ''.
`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??
I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

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