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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
Freedom
Woman
Need
Needs
Surrenders
Surrender
Dignity

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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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