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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Wish
Settling
Might
Shape
Make
Shapes
Always
Instead
Think
Takes
Thinking
Secret
Life
Waiting
Wishing
Happy
Settle

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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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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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