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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Smart
Difference
Accepting
Differences
Change
Enough
Accept

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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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