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Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.[a] In 1988 she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.[b]

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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

Insane, Innate, Societies, Resepect

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Hell, Like, Mind, Want, Work

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

Beginning, Hero, Heroes, Sudden, Turn, Turns

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

Close, Close Friends, Friends, Male, Males, Tomboy

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.

Pieces, Sit, Think, Thinking, Two, Writing

He sure put things into words good.

Good, Words, Things

Some are going, some are staying. . . . i'm in between.

Staying

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

Age, Boy, Boys, Like, Wish, Wishing

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

Eye, Eyes, Glowing, Johnny, Managed, Southern

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 down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

Believe, Boys, Looked, Mean, Shadows, Stars

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.

Guy, Idea, Ideas, Longtime, Mean

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

Jazz, Know, Knows, Rules, Rumble

I'm a good judge of my own work.

Good, Good Judges, Judge, Judging, My Own, Work

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.

Life, Sight, Sixteen, Streets, Years

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

Gold, Outsiders, Ponyboy, Socs, Stay

Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. 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.

Brother, Contrary, Crazy, Miscast, Mother, Popular

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!

Blacken, Cities, Fun, Gas, Hood, Men

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.

Boys, Hair, Oil, Personal, Problem, Tell

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

Friend, Friends, Friendship, Good Friend, Lucky, Real Friends

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

Life, Somebody, Tell, Tell Me The Truth, Truth, Wanted

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