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

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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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