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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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 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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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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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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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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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