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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
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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...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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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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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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What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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