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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
Taste
Grow
Grows
Chance
Take
Like
Cultivate
Adventure

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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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