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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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 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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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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 seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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He sure put things into words good.
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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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