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1  "I don't believe this is a smoker, Rudolf," she said.
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2  If I told you what I go around in, you probably wouldn't believe me.
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3  I told him I wasn't going to chuck it at anybody, but he wouldn't believe me.
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4  I told them I had quite a bit of money with me, but they didn't seem to believe me.
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5  "I may be wrong but I believe your nose is bleeding, dear," she said, all of a sudden.
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6  She came over to me, with this funny look on her face, like as if she didn't believe me.
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7  Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie.
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8  Sometimes it was hard to believe, the people he said were flits and Lesbians and all, movie actors and like that.
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9  She tells old Alec he's really a duke and all, but he doesn't believe her and doesn't want to go with her to visit his mother and all.
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10  I saw one guy, a gray-haired, very distinguished-looking guy with only his shorts on, do something you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
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11  It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.
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