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I love the most the students with troubled lives.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Students
Lives
Love
Troubled

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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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 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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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