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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!

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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 made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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