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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Today
Live
Life
Inhabit
Rent
Yesterday
Inspiring
Tomorrow
Moments

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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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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.
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Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
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Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
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You are what you are Which is what? I wondered
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When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
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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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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.
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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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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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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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So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
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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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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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I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
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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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They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
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