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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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 knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney. I went cold. I don't like it. I never liked it. Soda just looked at me. You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat. I don't like it, I repeated.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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