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Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
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