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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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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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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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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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 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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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...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 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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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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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 wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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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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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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He sure put things into words good.
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