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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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 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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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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 gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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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 wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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