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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

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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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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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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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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