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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
People
Undone
Scared
Waste
Happiness
Happy
Everyone
Makes

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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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