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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Seekers
Travel
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Journey
Wants
Find
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Needs
Seeker
Way
Discovers

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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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