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

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Pulled
Chair
Chairs
Seats
Taking
Away
Cushion
Life
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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