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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
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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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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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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
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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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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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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 are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
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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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I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
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