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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
Adoration
Havens
Haven
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People

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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.
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I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.
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They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
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You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
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Events become feelings, feelings become events
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.
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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
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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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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.
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It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
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Where were we? she said. Getting credit, I said. What about it? Well, it's nice to get credit. The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. Is it? she said.
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If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.
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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
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