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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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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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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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... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney. I went cold. I don't like it. I never liked it. Soda just looked at me. You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat. I don't like it, I repeated.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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