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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Lived
People
Adoration
Havens
Haven

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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.
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I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
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She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
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The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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Events become feelings, feelings become events
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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
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When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
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Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
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Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?
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Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.
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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
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