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

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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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 roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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