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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Roundness
Exists
Evidence
Things

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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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