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Wally Lamb Inspirational Quotes (62)

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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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