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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
Everything
Life
Gray
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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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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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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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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That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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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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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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