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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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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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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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How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?
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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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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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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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She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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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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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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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 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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So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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As we meandered, she said my name three times: Stargirl? Yes? That was better than TV. It was. Stargirl? Yes? Does the sun do that everyday? Yes. Stargirl? Yes? Everyday is sun day.
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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
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