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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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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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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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He sure put things into words good.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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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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