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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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