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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
Chair
Chairs
Seats
Taking
Away
Cushion
Life
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Pulled

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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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