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The greatest griefs are silent.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Griefs
Grief
Silent
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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