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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.

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
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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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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They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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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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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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He sure put things into words good.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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