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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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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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