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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
S. E. Hinton
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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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 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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... 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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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 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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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