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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Someone
Back
Many
Good
Shove
Things
Trust
Happened
Fear
Away

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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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