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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Take
Giving
People
Milkshakes
Drink
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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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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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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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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 walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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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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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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