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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
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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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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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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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 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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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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