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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

S. E. Hinton

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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
Violent
Died
Knew
Dies
Young
Like
Someday
Desperate

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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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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney. I went cold. I don't like it. I never liked it. Soda just looked at me. You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat. I don't like it, I repeated.
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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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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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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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...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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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