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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Myth
Modern
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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 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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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