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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
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Hate
Love
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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 work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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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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 evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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