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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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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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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...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 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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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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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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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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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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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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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