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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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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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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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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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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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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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Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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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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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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