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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Ended
Wherever
Unhappy
Took
Wanted
Love
Risked
Repressed

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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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