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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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Regret
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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 advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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