I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

—S. E. Hinton

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About S. E. Hinton

Portrait of S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. She graduated from the University of Tulsa.

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If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.

—Rudyard Kipling

Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

—H. L. Mencken

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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically—for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist—but then what isn't?

—Quentin Crisp

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When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

—John Steinbeck

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