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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
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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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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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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He sure put things into words good.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney. I went cold. I don't like it. I never liked it. Soda just looked at me. You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat. I don't like it, I repeated.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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