S. E. Hinton Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Class, Watches

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, Penguin

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• why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop

  S. E. Hinton

  Fighting, Likes, Shows

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Boys, Hair, Oil

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin

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• Okay greasers,you've had it.

  S. E. Hinton

  Okay

  S. E. Hinton, Christopher Sergel (1990). “The Outsiders”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  School, Might, Frogs

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• But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?

  S. E. Hinton

  People, Ems

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• I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Real, Pride

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Penguin

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Thinking, Lucky, Sometimes

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Kids, Thinking

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• If you enjoy reading something, read it.

  S. E. Hinton

  Reading, Enjoy, Ifs

  "S. E. Hinton and the Y.A. Debate". Interview with Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. October 14, 2014.

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Gang, Reason, Needed

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.98, Penguin

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• I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

  S. E. Hinton

  People, Listening, Stuff

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.20, Penguin

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• There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real, Fighting, Self

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Penguin

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Ideas, Imagination

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• I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

  S. E. Hinton

  Males, Close Friends

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• It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

  S. E. Hinton

  Break, Rough, Fairs

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

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• Dally was so real he scared me.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real, Scared

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

  S. E. Hinton

  Cutting, Years, Track

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real, War, Kids

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.37, Penguin

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• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mother, Father, Men

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• I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

  S. E. Hinton

  Kids, Wish, Answers

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.88, Penguin

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sick, Trying, Hey

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Penguin

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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.

  S. E. Hinton

  Crazy, Thinking, Stills

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.24, Penguin

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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!

  S. E. Hinton

  Gang, Outcast, Social

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Thinking, Narrators

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.121, Penguin

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