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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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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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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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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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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 gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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He sure put things into words good.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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