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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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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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