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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
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Hate
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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