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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
Profit
Driven
Religion
Wells
Well
Oiled
Randomness
Denial

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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 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 risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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