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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
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
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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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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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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 haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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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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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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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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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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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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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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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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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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I became a children's author by accident.
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