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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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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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Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
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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 people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
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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.
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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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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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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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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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