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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Thing
Always
Love
Smashed
Deeper
Loved
Hurt
Left
Thought

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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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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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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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