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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Undone
Breathing
Sweet
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Love

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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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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 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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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