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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.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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Phoenix
Arizona
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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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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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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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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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 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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We're stronger than we realize.
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It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
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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.
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....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.
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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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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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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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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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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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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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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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