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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
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Two
Stories
Remember
Every
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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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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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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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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