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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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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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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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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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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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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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the person in this picture is really me.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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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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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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