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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
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Pennsylvania
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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
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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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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
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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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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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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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We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.
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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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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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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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