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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
Denial
Profit
Driven
Religion
Wells
Well
Oiled
Randomness

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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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