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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

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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
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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney. I went cold. I don't like it. I never liked it. Soda just looked at me. You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat. I don't like it, I repeated.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
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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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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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