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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Shade
Hidden
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Bolts
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Knives

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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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