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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
Needs
Surrenders
Surrender
Dignity
Freedom
Woman
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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