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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
Oiled
Randomness
Denial
Profit
Driven
Religion
Wells
Well

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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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