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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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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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He sure put things into words good.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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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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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 get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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