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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
Stuff
Find
Ever
Right
Trying
Time
Hey

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No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.
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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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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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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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So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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As we meandered, she said my name three times: Stargirl? Yes? That was better than TV. It was. Stargirl? Yes? Does the sun do that everyday? Yes. Stargirl? Yes? Everyday is sun day.
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Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
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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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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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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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I became a children's author by accident.
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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
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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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I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.
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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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