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My life is not just about the past.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
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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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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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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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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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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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Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal.
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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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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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...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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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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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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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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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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