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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
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
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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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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
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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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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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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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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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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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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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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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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
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