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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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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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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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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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