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1  You look like a guy in the movies.
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2  He started chuckling like a madman.
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3  My voice was shaking like a bastard.
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4  I landed on him like a goddam panther.
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5  I went right on smoking like a madman.
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6  You sound like a very attractive person.
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7  It looked like a Bible, but it was too skinny.
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8  He put his hand behind his ear, like a deaf guy.
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9  I didn't want to look like a screwball or something.
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10  I apologized like a madman, because the band was starting a fast one.
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11  She'd wear white gloves and walk right between us, like a lady and all.
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12  "You're goddam right they don't," Horwitz said, and drove off like a bat out of hell.
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13  I certainly began to feel like a prize horse's ass, though, sitting there all by myself.
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14  I started groping around in front of me, like a blind guy, but without getting up or anything.
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15  There were about three inches of snow on the ground, and it was still coming down like a madman.
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16  He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.
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17  I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it.
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