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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Reading
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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
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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 was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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My life is not just about the past.
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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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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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