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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Surrenders
Surrender
Dignity
Freedom
Woman
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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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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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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