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Star people are rare.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Rare
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Stars
People

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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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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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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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I became a children's author by accident.
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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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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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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 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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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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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 like there's no tomorrow!
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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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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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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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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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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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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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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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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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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