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S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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 never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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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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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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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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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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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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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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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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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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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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