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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
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Modern
Story
Read
Stories
Wanted
Idolatry
Connect
Myth

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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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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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