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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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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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 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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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