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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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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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