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

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
Dally
Ems
Kill
People

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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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 go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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He sure put things into words good.
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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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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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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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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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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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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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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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