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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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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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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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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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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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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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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 listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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