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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Joshua
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Tree
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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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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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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.
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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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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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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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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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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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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
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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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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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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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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
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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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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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