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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Life
Roundness
Sign
Presence
Design
Beyond
May

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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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