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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
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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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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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Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal.
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Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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No one expected you to amount to much, she told me. Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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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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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
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My life is not just about the past.
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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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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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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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I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
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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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I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.
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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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