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Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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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.
Jeannette Walls
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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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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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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Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
Jeannette Walls
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
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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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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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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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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.
Jeannette Walls
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
Jeannette Walls
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.
Jeannette Walls
It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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.
Jeannette Walls
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.
Jeannette Walls
The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react
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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.
Jeannette Walls
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
Jeannette Walls
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
Jeannette Walls
[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Jeannette Walls