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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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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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 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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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