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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Hands
Play
Different
Ems
Deals

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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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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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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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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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Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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Interesting people always have a past.
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...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
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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 never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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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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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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