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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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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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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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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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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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
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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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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'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
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