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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Elinor
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Molly
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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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 is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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