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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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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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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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