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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
Away
Someone
Back
Many
Good
Shove
Things
Trust
Happened
Fear

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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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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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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 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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