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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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He sure put things into words good.
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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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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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.
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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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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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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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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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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