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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
Makes
People
Undone
Scared
Waste
Happiness
Happy
Everyone

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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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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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