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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.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Like
Cultivate
Adventure
Taste
Grow
Grows
Chance
Take

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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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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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