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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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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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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 learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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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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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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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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