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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

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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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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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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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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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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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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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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