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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

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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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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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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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Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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He sure put things into words good.
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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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