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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Life
Limits
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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 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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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 comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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