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If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Idea
Running
Today
Ideas
Something
Really
Trash

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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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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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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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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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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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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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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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
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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?
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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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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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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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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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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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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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