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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
Power
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Wrongly
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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