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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
Happy
Settle
Wish
Settling
Might
Shape
Make
Shapes
Always
Instead
Think
Takes
Thinking
Secret
Life
Waiting
Wishing

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Connecticut is in my blood.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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