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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Drawings
Lions
Waves
Wave
Drawing
Early
Follow
Tidal
Humans
Warned

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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 what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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