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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
Running
Today
Ideas
Something
Really
Trash
Idea

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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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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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You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
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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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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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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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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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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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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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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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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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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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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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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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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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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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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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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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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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