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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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 gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. 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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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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