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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
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Cultivate
Adventure
Taste
Grow
Grows
Chance
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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