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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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He sure put things into words good.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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 gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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