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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
Destined
Getting
Half
Happy
Together
Real

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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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I became a children's author by accident.
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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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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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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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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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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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This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.
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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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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.
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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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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
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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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When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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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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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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Events become feelings, feelings become events
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