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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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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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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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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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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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 listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
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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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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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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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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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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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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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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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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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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