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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.

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
S. E. Hinton
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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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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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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