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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Stories
Fears
Mirrors

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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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