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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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