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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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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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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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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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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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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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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 go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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