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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Cried
Mets
Shoes
Feet
Men

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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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