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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Situations
Usually
Ones
Situation
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Hate
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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