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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Chairs
Seats
Taking
Away
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Life
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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