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

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Situations
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Ones
Situation
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Hate
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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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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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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