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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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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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...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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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 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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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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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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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