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You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
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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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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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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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.
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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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Do not follow me! 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 tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
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