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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Nobody
Free
Everyone
Cannot
Time
Owned

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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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I became a children's author by accident.
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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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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
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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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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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