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Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?
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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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You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
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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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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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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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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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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The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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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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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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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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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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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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