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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Story
Two
Stories
Remember
Every
Sides

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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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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 write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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