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| 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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| We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids. |
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Me and Darry just didn't dig each other. I never could
please him. |
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| He could lift a hubcap quicker and more quietly than anyone in the neighborhood. |
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Dally searched his shirt pocket for a cigarette, and finding none, said, "Gotta cancer stick, Johnnycake?"
Two-Bit grinned and lit a cigarette. "Anyone want a weed?" |
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| A guy with a madras shirt stepped up. "Let's get the rules straight--- nothing but our fists, and the first to run lose. Right?" Tim flipped away his beer can. "You savvy real good." |
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| Tough and tuff are two different words. They liked the Beatles and thought Elvis Presley was out, and we thought the Beatles were rank and that Elvis was tuff, but that seemed the only difference to me. |
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| The medium-sized blond pulled a knife out of his back pocket and flipped the blade open. |
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| I had been in on bull sessions and his bragging was as loud as anyone's. But never about Sandy. |
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| His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something. |
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| Two-Bit Mathews was the oldest of the gang and the wisecracker of the bunch. |
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| For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned it. |
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| At the corner of our block there's a wide, open field where we play football and hang out, and it's often a site for rumbles and fist fights. |
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| We left when the switchblades came out, because the cops would be coming soon and nobody in his right mind wants to be around when the fuzz show. |
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| We can't walk alone at all. I started carryin' a heater. |
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| He was still a junior at eighteen and a half and he never learned anything. He just went for kicks. |
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| Greasers can't walk alone too much or they'll get jumped. |
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| 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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| Ponyboy lit up his weed in the hospital. |
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| Dally is in the cooler a lot because he gets jammed up by the fuzz. |
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| Johnny got rolled by some Socs when he was by himself. |
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| I have quite a rep for being quiet, almost as quiet as Johnny. |
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| I was plannin' on getting boozed up tomorrow night. |
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