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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Answered
Prayers
Knees
Prayer
Something
Undone

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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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 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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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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