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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Wells
Well
Oiled
Randomness
Denial
Profit
Driven
Religion

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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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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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