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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

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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Screenwriter
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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 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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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He sure put things into words good.
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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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