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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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Innate
Societies
Insane

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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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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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