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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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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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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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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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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He sure put things into words good.
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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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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 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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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