My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

At first I thought he had missed.

`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.

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.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Suddenly and not a second too soon I thought of the coins in my pocket.

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

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.

But I would never have thought of it myself ''.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.

How far I knew will shortly become apparent.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.

I knew this knowledge to be corrupting at the time I acquired it ; ;

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

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 ''.

`` 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.

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 ; ;

But I think that something more than this is involved.

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 ''.