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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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
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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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 don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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He sure put things into words good.
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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 knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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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.
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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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