S. E. Hinton Quotes
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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 still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop
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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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I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.
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I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.
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Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
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I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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... 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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I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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let's do it for Johnny
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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If you enjoy reading something, read 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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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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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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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