THING in Classic Quotes

1  The one thing we were proud of.

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Context   In Chapter 5

2  It was the principle of the thing.

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Context   In Chapter 2

3  It was the only thing Dally did honestly.

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Context   In Chapter 4

4  That would be one thing they'd never think of soap.

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Context   In Chapter 5

5  For Pete's sake, Johnny, don't point the thing at me.

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Context   In Chapter 4

6  We stopped at a Dairy Queen and the first thing I got was a Pepsi.

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Context   In Chapter 5

7  The first thing I knew I was telling her about Mickey Mouse, Soda's horse.

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Context   In Chapter 3

8  Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have.

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Context   In Chapter 7

9  We were having a school picnic up here and the first thing we knew, the place is burning up.

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Context   In Chapter 6

10  So Dally, even though he could get into a good fight sometimes, had no specific thing to hate.

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Context   In Chapter 1

11  The next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement beside the fountain, coughing water and gasping.

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Context   In Chapter 4

12  The last thing I'd eaten was a hot fudge sundae at the Dairy Queen in Windrixville, and I was hungry.

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Context   In Chapter 7

13  Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny, who wouldn't hurt a living thing on purpose, had taken a human life.

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Context   In Chapter 4

14  I never thought I'd live to see the day when I would be so glad to see Dally Winston, but right then he meant one thing: contact with the outside world.

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Context   In Chapter 5

15  Dally's eyes were closed, but when I spoke he had tried to grin and had told me that if I ever did a stupid thing like that again he'd beat the tar out of me.

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Context   In Chapter 6

16  Not after me and Darry had finally got through to each other, and now that the big rumble was coming up and we would settle this Soc-greaser thing once and for all.

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Context   In Chapter 7

17  Finally, even Sodapop got tired of the reporter--- he gets bored with the same old thing after a time--- and stretching out on the long bench, he put his head in Darry's lap and went to sleep.

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Context   In Chapter 7