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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
Surrender
Dignity
Freedom
Woman
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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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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 try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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