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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
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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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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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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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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 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 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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I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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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 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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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