“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.”

—  Jeannette Walls , book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

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American writer and journalist 1960

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