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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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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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Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?
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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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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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In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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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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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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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
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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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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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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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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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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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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Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
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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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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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