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Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
I must have a powerful representative here, a firm with a national distribution and ten, twenty thousand dollars to advertise my products.
The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
I must confess that I prefer the Liberal who is personally affected, who is willing to send his own children to a mixed school as proof of his faith.
Being a teacher of American literature, I remembered Whittier's `` Massachusetts To Virginia '', where he said: `` But that one dark loathsome burden ye must stagger with alone, And reap the bitter harvest which ye yourselves have sown ''.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
Miriam Noel Wright said, `` Here I am at my own home, locked out so I must stand in the road ''!!
Miriam said that she must be assured that `` that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along ''.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Just as in the case of every prodigy child, we must watch for the efficacy of my teaching to show up in the future -- if he should master all the strenuous exercises I inflicted on him.
`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.
I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.

I and say
I just wanted to hear you say so ''.
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.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
`` I realize that this is hardly the time to say it, Penny '', said Keith.
How he returned in such a ghastly condition, or why, I cannot say.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.
The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.
Asked which institution most needs correction, I would say the corporation as it exists in America today.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
For pride's sake, I will not say that the coy and leering vade mecum of those verses insinuated itself into my soul.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I and figure
A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.
He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.
I have argued that Oedipus of the Oedipus complex has a doubtful future as a tragic figure in literature.
I think I'm right in that figure.
`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.
Sonuvabitch, I can't figure out what in hell for they went and put niggers in my squad for.
If a human figure or wild life are to be part of the projected final picture, I try to place them in the initial sketch.
I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
`` Not a bit '', I said, `` but she's keeping her figure in hand ''.
I mean, we all figured -- I guess anybody'd figure -- Angie '' --
Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.
Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.
I figure if I can get any kind of publicity campaign going, I'll land him on TV -- you know, one of those favorite horses for some Western hero.
He was a very popular political figure, and since he was the Governor in the effective capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor Valentinian I. Ambrose never married.
I was struck by the size of the man, and although cumbersome and heavy, he was still a mighty figure.
" Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about ," Capp once said.
) Amestris has often been identified with Vashti, but this identification is problematic, as Amestris remained a powerful figure well into the reign of her son, Artaxerxes I, whereas Vashti is portrayed as dismissed in the early part of Xerxes's reign.
" Here's the way I figure it.
*** The I Ching is a manual of divination based on the eight trigrams attributed to the mythical figure Fuxi ( by the time of Confucius these eight trigrams had been multiplied to sixty-four hexagrams ).

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