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5fffd66
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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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rumble-fish
hinton
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598de0d
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Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold. --Johnny quoting Robert Frost
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inspirational
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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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S.E. Hinton |
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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.
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S.E. Hinton |
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afcd757
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They weren't looking for a fight, they were looking to fit in.
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S.E. Hinton |
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cf9ed34
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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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The dawn was coming then. All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the east, and the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose. It was beautiful.
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S.E. Hinton |
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6d45791
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If we don't have each other, we don't have anything.
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S.E. Hinton |
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938a8bc
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He sure put things into words good.
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irony
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S.E. Hinton |
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60c9ce6
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Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.
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S.E. Hinton |
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234e76f
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Okay greasers, you've had it.
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S.E. Hinton |
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ad40374
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It was too late to tell Dally. Would he have listened? I doubted it. Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world..
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S.E. Hinton |
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0fff642
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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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S.E. Hinton |
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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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S.E. Hinton |
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b55f4dd
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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S.E. Hinton |
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I could fall in love with Dallas Winston," she said. "I hope I never see him again, or I will."
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S.E. Hinton |
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03d98a6
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Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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sunset
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S.E. Hinton |
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fab1b73
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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S.E. Hinton |
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6ad8578
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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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funny
siblings
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S.E. Hinton |
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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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S.E. Hinton |
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b5ea707
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Johnny died.
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S.E. Hinton |
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781b3c0
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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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S.E. Hinton |
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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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understanding
listening
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There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.
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S.E. Hinton |
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442fd97
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Man, I didnt know anything like that was going to happen! Honest, Tex, he was on something. Holy cow! I really kid, I been doing this stuff for a year now and I never saw nobody pull a gun before! God Almighty! What if he hadnt missed!' -- Lem 'He didn't.' -- Tex 'What?' -- Lem 'I said he didn't miss. He shot me and it hurts like hell.' -- Tex
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S.E. Hinton |
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2f1e896
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You read a lot, don't you, Ponyboy?" I was startled. "Yeah, why?" "I could just tell. I'll bet you watch sunsets, too."
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S.E. Hinton |
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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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Race you," I challenged, leaping up. It was a real nice night for a race. The air was clear and cold and so clean it almost sparkled. The moon wasn't out but the stars lit up everything. It was quiet except for the sound of our feet on the cement and the dry, scraping sound of leaves blowing across the street. It was a real nice night. I guess I was still out of shape, because we all thee tied. No. I guess we all just wanted to stay togethe..
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S.E. Hinton |
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We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.
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gang
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Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.
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individuality
morality
morals
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You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.
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S.E. Hinton |
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you don't just stop living because you lose someone. You don't quit!
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S.E. Hinton |
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I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky. I know better now.
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the-outsiders
worries
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S.E. Hinton |
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5952cda
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Don't you know a rumble ain't a rumble unless I'm in it?
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S.E. Hinton |
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c8e2687
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Some people go, some people stay. I'm staying.
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S.E. Hinton |
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5ab3651
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All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.
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S.E. Hinton |
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ec58af9
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You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still a lot of good in the world.
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S.E. Hinton |
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cab97bf
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No quiero morir ahora. No ha sido suficiente tiempo. Dieciseis anos no son suficiente tiempo. No me importaria tanto si no hubiese tantas cosas que no he hecho y tantas otras que no he visto.
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S.E. Hinton |
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You oughta see Kathy's brother. Now there's a hood. He's so greasy he glides when he walks. He goes to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut.
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S.E. Hinton |
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no es cuestion de dejar de vivir solo porque hayas perdido a alguien.
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S.E. Hinton |
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41fe098
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Soda was glaring at him. "Leave my kid brother alone, you hear? It ain't his fault he likes to go to the movies, and it ain't his fault the Socs like to jump us, and if he had been carrying a blade it would have been a good excuse to cut him to ribbons." --
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S.E. Hinton |
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2f708e7
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The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in Dally.
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S.E. Hinton |
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b76a1e6
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Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him." The black cat paused and looked me over. "No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that."
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S.E. Hinton |
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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