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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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He sure put things into words good.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
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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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You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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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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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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...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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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