TOUGH in Classic Quotes

1  you get tough like me and you don't get hurt.

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Context   In Chapter 9

2  They were all as tough as nails and looked it.

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Context   In Chapter 1

3  He looks older than twenty--- tough, cool, and smart.

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Context   In Chapter 1

4  I had looked in the mirror, and it did make me look tough.

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Context   In Chapter 1

5  He had a tough, hard look to him, and his nose had been broken twice.

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Context   In Chapter 9

6  Curly was an average downtown hood, tough and not real bright, but I liked him.

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Context   In Chapter 9

7  We can look meaner than anything when we want to--- looking tough comes in handy.

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Context   In Chapter 3

8  "I didn't either," I said in the bored, tough voice we reserved for strangers and cops.

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Context   In Chapter 6

9  Besides that, I've heard about Dallas Winston, and he looked as hard as nails and twice as tough.

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Context   In Chapter 2

10  If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother.

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Context   In Chapter 9

11  Johnny had a blank, tough look on his face--- you'd have had to know him to see the panic in his eyes.

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Context   In Chapter 4

12  I was the weed-fiend in my family--- Soda smokes only to steady his nerves or when he wants to look tough.

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Context   In Chapter 6

13  I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman--- he looks tough and I don't--- but I guess my own looks aren't so bad.

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Context   In Chapter 1

14  He looked hard and tough, because of his black T-shirt and his blue jeans and jacket, and because his hair was heavily greased and so long.

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Context   In Chapter 4

15  Curly, who was a tough, cool, hard-as-nails Tim in miniature, and I had once played chicken by holding our cigarette ends against each other's fingers.

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Context   In Chapter 9

16  Dally could take it--- Dally was of the breed that could take anything, because he was hard and tough, and when he wasn't, he could turn hard and tough.

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Context   In Chapter 6

17  Yeah," Johnny said slowly, and I wondered if, like me, he was remembering another voice, also tough and just deepened into manhood, saying: "Next time you want a broad, pick up your own kind.

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Context   In Chapter 6