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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
Live
Inhabit
Life
Rent
Yesterday
Inspiring
Tomorrow
Moments
Today

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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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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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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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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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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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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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We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance.
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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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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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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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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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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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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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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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Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
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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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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 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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Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
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