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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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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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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 guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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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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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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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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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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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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