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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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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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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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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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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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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