"...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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Source : S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.80, Penguin

S. E. Hinton

#Hurt Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“The more I push myself to take a risk, the less afraid I am to take a risk the next time. Each time I do, I expand my circle of comfort and my life becomes BIGGER.”
“The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.”
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
“I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus”
“That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.”
“I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

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