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I can shoot straight, if I don’t have to shoot too far.
— Scarlett • Gone with the Wind
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A modest, qualified boast about aim: the speaker's accuracy holds up only at short distance. The admission mixes confidence with honesty about a limit, so the claim sounds capable but hedged, as if skill is real yet not to be overstated.
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