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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
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Phoenix
Arizona
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Everything
Life
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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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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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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 reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.
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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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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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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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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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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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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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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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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
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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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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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