That’s because you can slide.

Because I don’t care about me.

She is pleased because you take bananas.

That’s because I never could slide at all.

That was because he had all that stuff too.

Because really I don’t know anything at all.

I don’t hear them because they are not important.

“Perhaps that was because I wore braces,” I said.

I won’t worry about that because it’s perfectly simple.

You can’t fire me because I’ve got down off my bicycle.

Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.

Couldn’t your brother really be your beau just because he’s your brother?

He liked her face because it was so jolly but he never thought about her.

I was glad he was not there, because he would have been a great worry to me.

Did you ever hear a blind man won’t smoke because he can’t see the smoke come out?

He would like to get him to substitute for Larita because he could get him cheaply.

We walked the short way through the communist quarter because we were four together.

There was a little froth on the beer in the bottles, not much because it was very cold.

The photographs did not make much difference to the major because he only looked out of the window.

Often I ran out of bait because I would take only ten worms with me in a tobacco tin when I started.

He could not lie as quietly as I could because, perhaps, he had not had as much practice being awake.

For years he had never enjoyed fried bananas because he had never been able to wait for them to cool.

You can’t just quit at your age and take to pumping yourself full of that stuff just because you got in a jam.

But the lumbermen might never come for them because a few logs were not worth the price of a crew to gather them.

If I could have a light I was not afraid to sleep, because I knew my soul would only go out of me if it were dark.

Bullfighters were very relieved he was dead, because he did always in the bullring the things they could only do sometimes.

The people hated us because we were officers, and from a wine-shop someone would call out, “A basso gli ufficiali!” as we passed.

Only it ain’t really like the Galleria because there everybody is going by all the time and there’s everybody around at the tables.

So, of course, many nights I was where I could have a light and then I slept because I was nearly always tired and often very sleepy.

“Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters is final,” he seemed to say, “just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are.”

He tried five times and the crowd was quiet because it was a good bull and it looked like him or the bull and then he finally made it.

At the cantina near the bridge they trusted him for three more grappas because he was so confident and mysterious about his job for the afternoon.

In the night the American lady lay without sleeping because the train was a rapide and went very fast and she was afraid of the speed in the night.

The kid came out and had to kill five bulls because you can’t have more than three matadors, and the last bull he was so tired he couldn’t hardly get the sword in.

Another boy who walked with us sometimes and made us five wore a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be rebuilt.

They had taken him for a soldier in nineteen fourteen when he had come back to visit his family, and they had given him to me for an orderly because he spoke English.

He remembered there were nine because Joe Garner, driving along in the dusk, pulled up the horses, jumped down into the road and dragged an Indian out of the wheel rut.

I myself did not want to sleep because I had been living for a long time with the knowledge that if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my soul would go out of my body.

I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.

They ride very fast because the race is usually limited to a short distance and if they slow their riding another rider who maintains his pace will make up the space that separated them equally at the start.

I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American.

She walked a little way along the station platform, but she stayed near the steps of the car because at Cannes, where it stopped for twelve minutes, the train had left with no signal of departure and she had only gotten on just in time.

So they all sat around the Café du Dome, avoiding the Rotonde across the street because it is always so full of foreigners, for a few days, and then the Elliots rented a château in Touraine, through an advertisement in the New York Herald.

He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

My old man sat there and sort of smiled at me, but his face was white and he looked sick as hell and I was scared and felt sick inside because I knew something had happened and I didn’t see how anybody could call my old man a son of a b⁠⸺, and get away with it.

Everybody liked him and whenever I’d come in to the Café in the forenoon I’d find somebody drinking with him because my old man wasn’t tight like most of these jockies that have got the first dollar they made riding at the World’s Fair in St. Louis in nineteen ought four.

But I stayed good friends with the boy who had been wounded his first day at the front, because he would never know now how he would have turned out; so he could never be accepted either, and I liked him because I thought perhaps he would not have turned out to be a hawk either.

They came to the post-office near where she lived uptown in New York, and the duty was never exorbitant because they opened the dresses there in the post-office to appraise them and they were always very simple-looking and with no gold lace nor ornaments that would make the dresses look expensive.

Finally, though, I went back to trout-fishing, because I found that I could remember all the streams and there was always something new about them, while the girls, after I had thought about them a few times, blurred and I could not call them into my mind and finally they all blurred and all became rather the same and I gave up thinking about them almost altogether.