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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
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
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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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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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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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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 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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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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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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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
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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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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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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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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
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