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I mean we know the order in which things happen, but we have no clocks and nobody cares enough to count days or to make calendars and there's not much climate here, so none of us know how long anything takes.
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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 know
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;
`` I know him.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
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??
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
`` I don't know, Tom.
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;
`` I know you ain't ''!!
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 know.
`` How would I know??
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.
Why she married him I do not know.
`` I know.
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