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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
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Discovers
Seekers
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Wants
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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