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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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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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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My life is not just about the past.
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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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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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But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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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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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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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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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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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 can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
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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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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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