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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Things
Forgiveness
Love
Exists
Dog
Evidence
Grows
Mongrels
Rich
Roundness
Make
Foam
Good
Dogs

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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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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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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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