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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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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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 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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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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 sure put things into words good.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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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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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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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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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 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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