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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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Oklahoma
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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 was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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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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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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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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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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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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 gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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