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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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 go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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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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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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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