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He is the most boring human being I have ever met—as dull as thick mud—and he goes on and on until at last I yell at him to shut up.
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You want the race, the exaltation, the joy and beauty of it to go on and on.…
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And then on and on he went some more.
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“Well, some days it feels like the fire just goes on and on and on and on,” Huneven said.
From Los Angeles Times
“And I’m just going on and on, about how obviously the letter had nothing to do with you being adopted because I got the same letter and I’m not adopted and—and—I don’t know what I was thinking, because then I said, ‘Right, Dad?
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