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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
S. E. Hinton
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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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 go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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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 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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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 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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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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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