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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
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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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Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.
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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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We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.
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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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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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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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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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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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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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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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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 haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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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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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 life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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