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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
Drink
Give
Take
Giving
People
Milkshakes

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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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 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 seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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