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You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Looked
Saws
Stupid
Present
Space
Future
Nothing
Occupied

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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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You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
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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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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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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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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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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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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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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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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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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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Do not follow me! 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 tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
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