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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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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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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 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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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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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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He sure put things into words good.
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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 don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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let's do it for Johnny
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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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 go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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 wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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