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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
People
Rare
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Stars

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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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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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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
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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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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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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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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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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
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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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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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We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance.
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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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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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
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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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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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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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