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Jerry Spinelli est un auteur de romans pour enfants, adolescents et jeunes adultes. Ses romans sont publiés à l'école des loisirs et Flammarion.

Son roman Maniac Maggee a été primé par la médaille Newbery en 1991.

Son roman Stargirl a été traduit dans plus de 40 langues et est disponible dans plusieurs pays autour du monde.

Il vit à Willistown avec sa femme Eileen, écrivain comme lui. Il est diplômé de l'université de Gettysburg. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. février 1941  •  Autres noms جری اسپینلی
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Jerry Spinelli: Citations en anglais

“if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“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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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.”

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Jerry Spinelli

As quoted in Instructor, Vol. 103 (1992), p. 201

“Star people are rare.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Love, Stargirl

Variante: Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.
Source: Love, Stargirl

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“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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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Her smile put the sunflower to shame.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“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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Jerry Spinelli livre Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“She laughed, and the desert sang.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.”

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Jerry Spinelli

“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”

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Jerry Spinelli livre Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

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