A in Classic Quotes

1  Johnny had it awful rough at home--- it took a lot to make him cry.

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2  For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did.

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3  But then, Darry's gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast.

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4  I was almost two blocks from home then, so I started walking a little faster.

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5  When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder.

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6  I automatically hitched my thumbs in my jeans and slouched, wondering if I could get away if I made a break for it.

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7  I got pretty scared--- I'm kind of small for fourteen even though I have a good build, and those guys were bigger than me.

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8  We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.

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9  Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while.

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10  WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

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11  They would have gone with me, or driven me there, or walked along, although Soda just can't sit still long enough to enjoy a movie and they bore Darry to death.

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12  It drives my brother Darry nuts when I do stuff like that, 'cause I'm supposed to be smart; I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything, but I don't use my head.'

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13  I glanced around for a pop bottle or a stick or something--- Steve Randle, Soda's best buddy, had once held off four guys with a busted pop bottle--- but there was nothing.

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14  My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut.

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15  I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors.

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16  Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next.

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17  I mean, my second-oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I'm not like them.

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