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

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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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 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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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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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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 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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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