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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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My life is not just about the past.
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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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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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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 believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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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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...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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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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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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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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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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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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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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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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