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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
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Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Troubled
Students
Lives
Love

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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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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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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 try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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