"You occupied my space. But because you were……" — Jerry Spinelli
"You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?"
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149 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli has 149 quotes on this site.
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I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no…
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Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it…
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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
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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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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no…
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Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.
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The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do…
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It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a…
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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,…
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I became a children's author by accident.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
— Hannah Arendt
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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
— Neil Armstrong
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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