S. E. Hinton quote: "When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody."

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON

My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON

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

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON

If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON

If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and endi...
S. E. HINTON

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken i...
S. E. HINTON

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won'...
E. S. KINNEAR

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
E. S. BOUTON

The man or woman who concentrated on Things can hardly be trusted to use those things for the essent...
E. S. FIELDS

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the fo...
S. E. LINDSAY

Tomorrow is the day that I finally get to chase my future.
Tomorrow is the day that I make her...
E. S. CARTER

Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 The scandal of the Bible does not lie s...
E. S. HOSKYNS

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
S.E. HINTON

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S.E. HINTON

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more tha...
S.E. HINTON

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

Our first goal is to get there and our second goal is to win.
ALY HINTON

We had a really good second half. We had to do it on defense. We gave up just two points in the firs...
ALY HINTON

Everyone from the starters to our key reserves off the bench are playing at a high level right now. ...
ALY HINTON

This is such an amazing feeling. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for some people. For some people...
ALY HINTON

There's a lot of road to go for them and us. But we'll see.
ALY HINTON

All of the girls here remember coming down to watch those games and how big they were. Those games m...
ALY HINTON

Erin always puts that pass right where it needs to be. That was perfect.
ALY HINTON

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
S.E. HINTON

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bo...
HINTON HELPER

Training has helped clerks to spot fake IDs.
TERRY HINTON

It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps w...
S.E. HINTON

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
S.E. HINTON

We just kind of go through dry spells occasionally, and we would give up a few quick points here and...
WIL HINTON

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you w...
S.E. HINTON

They're big and have the look of the wild, If you think you've rinsed enough, rinse again.
DONNA HINTON

I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.
S.E. HINTON

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
S.E. HINTON

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead...
S.E. HINTON

the person in this picture is really me.
S.E. HINTON

That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoo...
S.E. HINTON

why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop
S.E. HINTON

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted...
S.E. HINTON

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the membe...
S.E. HINTON

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing,...
S.E. HINTON

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
S.E. HINTON

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
S.E. HINTON

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younge...
S.E. HINTON

Stay Gold
S.E. HINTON

Ponyboy, listen, don't get tough. You're not like the rest of us and don't try to be..."
What w...
S.E. HINTON

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
S.E. HINTON

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was hu...
S.E. HINTON

Dally was so real he scared me.
S.E. HINTON

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 g...
S.E. HINTON

Get smart and nothing can touch you.
S.E. HINTON

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're...
S.E. HINTON

Things are rough all over.
S.E. HINTON

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...
S.E. HINTON

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belon...
S.E. HINTON

They were good for Bartow because they had 50 employees that were eating downtown and shopping downt...
BRIAN HINTON

One of the things I worry about is an obstacle to their care. Our system does require they (be regis...
BRIAN HINTON

Just keep my car clean I guess for right now. That's it.
BRIAN HINTON

I mean, most parents would be proud of a kid like that - good-lookin' and smart and everything, but ...
S.E. HINTON

Anything inside the festival is a guaranteed berry. If you don't like them, they'll replace them. Ou...
CHIP HINTON

This is all a love for us - these are our babies and our children.
DONNA HINTON

The judge goes to the cage and will stretch the cat out, look at their head and test their muscle to...
DONNA HINTON

We're always coming away from shows and learning something new, and we always listen and learn.
DONNA HINTON

He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told...
S.E. HINTON

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

nothing can wear you out like caring about people
S.E. HINTON

The difference is that was then, this is now.
S.E. HINTON

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two th...
S.E. HINTON

Our goal is to do fair, accurate and balance research. Not a lot of companies are doing critical res...
KAREN HINTON

What he gave us was a lot of rebounding and push at the basket. He has a very good quick step, which...
WIL HINTON

Any believer who has not encountered the Cross is not yet a follower of Christ
S. E. ENTSUA-MENSAH

Love is a contact sport you were born to win.
SUZETTE R. HINTON

If you are single and don't want to be. The only regret is staying that way.
SUZETTE R. HINTON

Love is not a straight line yet it still gets us to our destination.
SUZETTE R. HINTON

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.
SUZETTE R. HINTON

A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.
SUZETTE R. HINTON

We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of oblig...
SUZETTE R. HINTON

If the person you're talking with continues to press you for more or can't seem to accept your answe...
SUZETTE R. HINTON

Life is as long as you live it.
LASHAUNA D. HINTON

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S.

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY

I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN

So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER

To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S.

If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR

But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR

People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S.

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM

Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI

Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S

Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S

...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO

As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO

உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

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