S E Hinton Quotes

Susan Eloise Hinton

S.E. Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school. (S E Hinton Quotes)

“Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.”
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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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“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she’s on top of the world, not knowing she’s dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
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“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
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“Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.”
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“Get smart and nothing can touch you.”
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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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“He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he’d die someday.”
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“I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that’ll really listen to you, listen and care about what you’re saying, is something rare.”
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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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“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
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“I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.”
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“I made up my mind that I’d get out of that place and I did…I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell till you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.”
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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.”
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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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“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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“If you want to see something funny, it’s a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother.”
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“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”
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“Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.”
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“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”
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“There isn’t any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.”
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“There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.”
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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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“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human 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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“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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“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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“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 know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.”
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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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“Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. And he would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.”
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