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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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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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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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 wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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