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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

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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...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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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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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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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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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He sure put things into words good.
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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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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 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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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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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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