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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
Couldn
Protect
Shades
Dead
Bolts
Truth
Undone
World
Pulled
Knives
Shade
Hidden

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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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