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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
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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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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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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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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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 never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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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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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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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 can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
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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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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
Jeannette Walls
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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