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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
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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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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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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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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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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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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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He sure put things into words good.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
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