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1  So I ended up not calling anybody.
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2  I'd rather call old Thomas Hardy up.
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3  I mean about calling certain guys bores.
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4  Stop calling me 'Ackley kid,' God damn it.
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5  I wouldn't mind calling this Isak Dinesen up.
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6  All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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7  I wished to hell he'd stop calling me "boy" all the time.
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8  I call people a "prince" quite often when I'm horsing around.
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9  Every time I got started, I kept picturing old Sunny calling me a crumb-bum.
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10  I don't know, He just isn't the kind of guy I'd want to call up, that's all.
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11  It's a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn't want to call Somerset Maugham up.
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12  I just lay there in the floor for a while, and kept calling him a moron sonuvabitch.
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13  , where she went, instead of calling up her mother to find out when she was coming home.
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14  He kept holding onto my wrists and I kept calling him a sonuvabitch and all, for around ten hours.
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15  Then I thought of calling up this guy that went to the Whooton School when I was there, Carl Luce, but I didn't like him much.
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16  What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
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17  She kept saying these very corny, boring things, like calling the can the "little girls' room," and she thought Buddy Singer's poor old beat-up clarinet player was really terrific when he stood up and took a couple of ice-cold hot licks.
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