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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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