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Everything in life is gray, you know.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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Everything
Life
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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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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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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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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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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 sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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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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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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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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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Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
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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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