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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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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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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 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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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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He sure put things into words good.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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