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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Knives
Shade
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Dead
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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 you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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