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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
Dignity
Freedom
Woman
Need
Needs
Surrenders
Surrender

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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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