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1  It was really a terrific break.
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2  I didn't break my neck looking for him, naturally, the bastard.
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3  I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.
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4  Her mother knew my mother, and I could picture her breaking a goddam leg to get to the phone and tell my mother I was in New York.
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5  There's always a dumb horse race, and some dame breaking a bottle over a ship, and some chimpanzee riding a goddam bicycle with pants on.
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6  He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you.
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7  They had that same big yard inside, that was always sort of dark, with those cages around the light bulbs so they wouldn't break if they got hit with a ball.
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8  I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it.
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9  If he was so goddam stupid not to realize it was Saturday night and everybody was out or asleep or home for the week end, I wasn't going to break my neck telling him.
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