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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Power
Used
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Wrongly
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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 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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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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