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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
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Take
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People
Milkshakes

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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 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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