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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
Waves
Wave
Drawing
Early
Follow
Tidal
Humans
Warned
Drawings
Lions

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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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