Jeannette Walls - People Quotes

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You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Jeannette Walls
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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She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

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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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Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

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As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

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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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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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