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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
Journalist
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Phoenix
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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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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
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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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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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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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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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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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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Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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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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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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
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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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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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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
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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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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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