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Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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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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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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
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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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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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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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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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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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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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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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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 older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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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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