MEANING in Classic Quotes

1  I don't mean I do things like that.

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Context   In Chapter 1

2  The meaning of that last line finally hit me.

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Context   In Chapter 7

3  I told you he don't mean half of what he says.

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Context   In Chapter 1

4  He ain't dangerous like Dallas if that's what you mean.

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Context   In Chapter 2

5  It's just because you're the baby--- I mean, he loves you a lot.

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Context   In Chapter 1

6  I was too tired to tell myself I was being mean and unreasonable.

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Context   In Chapter 4

7  That made me mad, I mean making a fool of myself in front of everyone.

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Context   In Chapter 3

8  I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it eluded me.

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Context   In Chapter 5

9  And I don't like to talk about it either--- Johnny getting beat up, I mean.

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Context   In Chapter 2

10  But they only looked alike--- my father was never rough with anyone without meaning to be.

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Context   In Chapter 1

11  Mickey Mouse was a mean horse: He kicked other horses and was always getting into trouble.

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Context   In Chapter 3

12  I didn't mean to," he finally blurted out, "but they were drownin you, and I was so scared.

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Context   In Chapter 5

13  You know, sometimes I'll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realize I don't mean half of what I'm saying.

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Context   In Chapter 3

14  It amazed me how Johnny could get more meaning out of some of the stuff in there than I could--- I was supposed to be the deep one.

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Context   In Chapter 5

15  I could tell it was Darry though--- partly because of the voice and partly because Darry's always rough with me without meaning to be.

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Context   In Chapter 1

16  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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Context   In Chapter 1

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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Context   In Chapter 1