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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
Beyond
May
Life
Roundness
Sign
Presence
Design

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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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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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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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