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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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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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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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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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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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 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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