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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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 like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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...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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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 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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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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He sure put things into words good.
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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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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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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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