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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
Right
Trying
Time
Hey
Stuff
Find
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In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.
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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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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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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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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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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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I became a children's author by accident.
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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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I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.
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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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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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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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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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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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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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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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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