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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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