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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.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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