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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
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Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?
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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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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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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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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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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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You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
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I became a children's author by accident.
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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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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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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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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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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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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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If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.
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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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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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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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Events become feelings, feelings become events
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