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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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