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

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
Life
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Drama
Comedy
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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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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That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
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....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
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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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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
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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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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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