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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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'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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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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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 wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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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'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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