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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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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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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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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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... 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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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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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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