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S. E. Hinton

"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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"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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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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