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My life is not just about the past.
Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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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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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
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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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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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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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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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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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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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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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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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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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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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