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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
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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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Everything in life is gray, you know.
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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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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
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No one expected you to amount to much, she told me. Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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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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We're stronger than we realize.
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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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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal.
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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.
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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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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
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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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Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
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