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We're stronger than we realize.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
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Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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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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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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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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Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
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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 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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Interesting people always have a past.
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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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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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You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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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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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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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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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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