READ in Classic Quotes

1  I was remembering a poem I'd read once.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 5

2  I read most of the time, and drew pictures.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 11

3  "I read about you in the paper," Randy said finally.

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Context   In Chapter 7

4  He was sitting on the back steps trying to read Gone with the Wind.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 5

5  Not even when I read the name Robert Sheldon did it hit me who it was.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 11

6  "He wants a copy of Gone with the Wind so I can read it to him," I explained.

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Context   In Chapter 8

7  You read about people looking peacefully asleep when they're dead, but they don't.

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Context   In Chapter 9

8  He had a simple cure, too: Study harder, read more, draw more, and play football more.

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Context   In Chapter 7

9  But I realized that these three appealed to me because they were like the heroes in the novels I read.

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Context   In Chapter 5

10  If I was playing football, I should be in studying, and if I was reading, I should be out playing football.

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Context   In Chapter 1

11  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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Context   In Chapter 1

12  l doubt if half of them can read a newspaper or spell much more than their names, and it comes out in their speech.

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Context   In Chapter 9

13  "I bet they were cool ol guys," he said, his eyes glowing, after I had read the part about them riding into sure death because they were gallant.

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Context   In Chapter 5

14  I hunted around for a book to read, but I'd read everything in the house about fifty million times, even Darry's copy of The Carpetbaggers, though he'd told me I wasn't old enough to read it.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 12

15  I only wanted to lie on my back under a tree and read a book or draw a picture, and not worry about being jumped or carrying a blade or ending up married to some scatterbrained broad with no sense.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 3

16  On the fifth day I had read up to Sherman's siege of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind, owed Johnny a hundred and fifty bucks from poker games, smoked two packs of Camels, and as Johnny had predicted, got sick.

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Context   In Chapter 5

17  I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us--- the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.

The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 1