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With destruction comes renovation.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Renovation
Destruction
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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