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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?

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
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Ever
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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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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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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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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
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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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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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