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He sure put things into words good.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
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Screenwriter
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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Words
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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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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Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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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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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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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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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 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'm a good judge of my own work.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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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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