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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.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Real
Destined
Getting
Half
Happy
Together

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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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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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We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
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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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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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Where were we? she said. Getting credit, I said. What about it? Well, it's nice to get credit. The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. Is it? she said.
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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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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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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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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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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
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Events become feelings, feelings become events
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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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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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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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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?
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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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