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

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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