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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Happy
Everyone
Makes
People
Undone
Scared
Waste
Happiness

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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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