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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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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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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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