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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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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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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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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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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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... 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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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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 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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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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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'm a good judge of my own work.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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