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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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...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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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 what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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the person in this picture is really me.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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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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