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let's do it for Johnny

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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He sure put things into words good.
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
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