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I and thought
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
At first I thought he had missed.
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 and told
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
I just do what I'm told, and '' --
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
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.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.
My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;
After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.
`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.
`` No, I have no permission to enter Germany '', I told him.

I and you
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
`` 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 saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I made you a man ''.
The charge, I tell you ''!!
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
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 won't even try to thank you ''.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

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