IN in Classic Quotes

1  "Hey, grease," one said in an over-friendly voice.

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2  One of them laughed, then cussed me out in a low voice.

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3  And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do.

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

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

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6  I heard a muttered curse and got slugged again, and they were stuffing a handkerchief in my mouth.

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7  Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave.

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8  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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9  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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10  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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11  I remembered Johnny--- his face all cut up and bruised, and I remembered how he had cried when we found him, half-conscious, in the comer lot.

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12  I lay there and wondered what in the world was happening--- people were jumping over me and running by me and I was too dazed to figure it out.

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13  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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14  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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15  I only mean that most greasers do things like that, just like we wear our hair long and dress in blue jeans and T-shirts, or leave our shirttails out and wear leather jackets and tennis shoes or boots.

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16  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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17  If I had thought about it, I could have called Darry and he would have come by on his way home and picked me up, or Two-Bit Mathews--- one of our gang--- would have come to get me in his car if I had asked him, but sometimes I just don't use my head.

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