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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
Men
Cried
Mets
Shoes
Feet

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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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