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Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.
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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
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