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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
Make
Foam
Good
Dogs
Things
Forgiveness
Love
Exists
Dog
Evidence
Grows
Mongrels
Rich
Roundness

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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