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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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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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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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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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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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My life is not just about the past.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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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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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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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.
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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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...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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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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