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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an 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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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an 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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In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
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In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
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They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
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They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
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They're nice and all--I'm not saying that--but they're also touchy as hell.
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They're nice and all--I'm not saying that--but they're also touchy as hell.
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Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything.
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Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything.
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I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all.
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I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all.
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He's in Hollywood.
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He's in Hollywood.
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That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end.
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That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end.
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He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe.
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He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe.
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He just got a Jaguar.
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He just got a Jaguar.
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One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
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One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
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It cost him damn near four thousand bucks.
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It cost him damn near four thousand bucks.
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He's got a lot of dough, now.
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He's got a lot of dough, now.
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He didn't use to.
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He didn't use to.
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He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home.
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He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home.
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He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him.
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He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him.
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The best one in it was "The Secret Goldfish."
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The best one in it was "The Secret Goldfish."
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It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money.
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It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money.
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It killed me.
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It killed me.
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Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute.
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Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute.
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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
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Don't even mention them to me.
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Don't even mention them to me.
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