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S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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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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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
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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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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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