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1  I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
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2  You never want to discuss anything.
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3  He doesn't want me to be a tap dancer.
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4  I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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5  I have no wind, if you want to know the truth.
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6  I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth.
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7  You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something.
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8  Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep.
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9  He didn't want you to think he was visiting you or anything.
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10  I didn't want to hang around in that stupid atmosphere any more.
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11  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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12  It's a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn't want to call Somerset Maugham up.
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13  I don't even think the bastard had a handkerchief, if you want to know the truth.
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14  "No, but I don't want you stretching it with your goddam shoulders and all," I said.
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15  It kept getting darker and darker, and we could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing.
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16  I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in a goddam boat, he'd want to know who the guy was that was rowing it before he'd even get in.
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17  IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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