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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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 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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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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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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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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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 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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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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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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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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