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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
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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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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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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.
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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.
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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