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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
Truth
Undone
World
Pulled
Knives
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Hidden
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Shades
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Bolts

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Connecticut is in my blood.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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