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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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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 grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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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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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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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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