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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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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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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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You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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He sure put things into words good.
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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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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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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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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 knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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