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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.

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
S. E. Hinton
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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