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I and think
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
I have to think about it.
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
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.
`` I think you stink, Tom Lord!!
You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` But I still think Penny's an awful nice girl, Russ '' --
`` 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 showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.

I and you're
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --
`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
`` I think maybe you're right, Schaffner '', he said.
I guess you're right ''.
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 ''.
Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.
`` I imagine you're always battling in school ''.
I don't ask you who 'tis you're being unfaithful to, husband or lover.
`` Ah, you're too old '', was invariably his ungallant and untrue retort whenever I suggested `` starting a family ''.
`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.
`` I don't know what you're getting into, Mike '', he said unhappily.
`` Sure, sure, you're the one take over for Pretty, soon as I get the supply, get started up again, isn't it??
`` Shall I let them know you're awake ''??
And if you're as flat broke as I am, I think we'll have to take the added risk of knocking over a filling station or something before we split for one of us to set up an alibi while the other does his dirty work ''.
He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.
`` You know '', he said, getting a grip on himself, `` I think you're going to have to excuse me.
I love you, I hate you, I feel like killing you and myself, and in the same sequence I love you I think you're the most wonderful the most noble and so on and on, meanwhile eating a good breakfast and dinner and enjoying living.

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 ''.
`` 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 ''

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