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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
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Ems
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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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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
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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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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 thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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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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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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We're stronger than we realize.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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My life is not just about the past.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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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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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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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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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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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