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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
Real
Every
Name
Names
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I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl
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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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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.
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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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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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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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Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.
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Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
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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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Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.
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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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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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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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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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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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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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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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