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Events become feelings, feelings become events

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Events
Feelings
Become

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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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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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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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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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